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'HE NEW Yad'ioli? TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1967 Lawyer Says He Knows the Real 'Clay Bertrand' By GENE ROBERTS ' Mr. Andrews's testimony to a convicted burglar, was being Special to Tee New York Timex the Warren Commission about truthful when he charged re- NEW ORLEANS, June 28- the mysterious "Mr. Bertrand" cently that a member of Mr. A New Orleans lawyer said to- was one of the developments Garrison's staff had asked him day he knows the true identity that led Mr. Garrison to con- to "put something into" Mr. of a mystery figure who has, clude that President Kennedy's Shaw's apartment. played a major role in District death was the result of a con- He said he could not vouch Attorney Jim Garrison's investi- spiracy. for the story "words for word." gation of the Kennedy assassi- Mr. Andrews, a rotund man But, he said, "somebody In the nation. who talks in Damon Runyon district attorney's office told Dean A. Andrews, the lawyer. style, told Warren Commission me a long time back that Can- said the real "Clay Bertrand" lawyers that Clay Bertrand sent cler had been asked to break Is the operator of a local bar Lee Harvey Oswald to his law Into Shaw's apartment." and not Clay L. Shaw, a busi- office in the summer of 1983. He also said he was "con- nessman arrested after he was Oswald is the man who, accord- stantly surprised" at the way accused by Mr. Garrison of par- ing to the commission, killed An which Mr. Garrison developed ticipation in an assassination President Kennedy alone and "leads" in the assassination in- plot. Mr. Shaw is awaiting trial. unaided. quiry. "Clay Shaw is not, never has Both Mr. Andrews and Mr. Once, he said, Mr. Garrison been, never will be and cannot Gurvich came to the Orleans received a letter from a house- be Clay Bertrand," said Mr. Parish Criminal Courts building wife in Texas who was trying to Andrews. today to appear before the Par- find her husband in an effort William Gurvich, who re- ish grand jury. to collect support payments. signed early this week as a key While waiting to testify, Mr. She described her husband, Investigator for Mr. Garrison, Gurvich said he hoped "the Mr. Gurvich said. as having a said that Mr. Andrews had told grand fury would insist on a scar over his left eye and as Mr. Garrison "months ago" that more neutral adviser than Gar- being a native of British Hon- Mr, Shaw was not "Bertrand," rison" In trying to assess his duras. but that Mr. Garrison had con- charges that the Kennedy in- sistently refused to drop con- vestigation had involved "mis- spiracy charges against Mr. conduct and malfeasance" on Shaw. the part of the district at- The real "Clay Bertrand" was torney's office. described by Mr. Andrews as a Mr. Gurvich told newsmen he "client and a friend of mine." was convinced that John Cantle .

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