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