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-14- A. You're not used to this heat. I haven't been in an air conditioned room going on seven years. It don't phase me. Q. Is that right. A. Yeh, it's bothering you. Q. Have you stated here in this interview when you came here, what date it was when you were first arrested? A. I was arrested on January 1, 1961. Q. And have you ever been free since then? A. Yeh, I made bond. But the last free day I saw was February 6, 1961. That was the last free day I saw and it will probably be the last free day I see for three or four more years. Q. Okay, now to get back to the other people you know, who knew BERTRAND. Now are you pretty well satisfied with your memory on that? Do you know anyone in New Orleans who may have known this man CLAY BERTRAND? A. No, Sir, I don't Now let me explain how this situation goes. The three times I met him at the Masquerade Bar it was, GENE DAVIS took me all three times, it was kind of a thing between us, and then we went straight from there to MR. DAVIS apartment, GENE DAVIS, well actually, it was kind of very private, you know what I mean. It wasn't like going to a big party with 100 people there and CLAY BERTRAND was there. Now this guy EDDIE who worked for BILL BOONE. Q. Now about EDDIE tell me something about him. A. Whenever he was introduced to you, he was BILL BOONE's flunky, and this is it. Q. About BILL BOONE A. I'll tell you who else I met, BILL BOONE introduced to me. I met.....It doesn't have anything to do with this he used to come down every year and visit with him. Tennessee Williams. Q. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS knew BILL BOONE? Visited him, was intimate friends with him? A. They were intimatefriends. They were in 1958 or 1959 and '60. He was famous then, he's got a little more famous now. That's who showed up, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. Q. Did you ever run across, in all the friends of BOONE, BERTRAND's and SHAW's, did you everrun across a Latin American, tall, spanish speaking, but he spoke english with a very heavy spanish accent. A. Now, I wrote you all a litter. ah, evidently you all got, cause Le but there was a Cuban person on that boat in September, in late September when I wont out there and I wrote you about that. Q. Yes.