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# Garrison Orders Arrest Of 'Plot' Probe WitnessNEW ORLEANS, La. (AP)- that "Garrison double-crossed Dist, Atty. Jim Garrison's office me,"today ordered the arrest of ("What my friend Mr, Garri Gordon Novel, former owner of son is conducting is not a nor French Quarter bar, as a mal investigation but is a politi material witness in the investi cal, police state inquisition," gation of President Jolin F. United Press International Kennedy's assassination. quoted Novel as saying.(When Novel, left ColumbusNovel, 29, was subpoenaed to this morning, he left a note appear before the Orleans behind for reporters. It said:Parish grand jury, yesterday in "Gentlemen, due to pressure connection with Garrison's from. New Orleans I had to probe. He did not appear and leave. I will prove my statement could not be found here. in Chicago in due course.")Novel appeared before theNovel later turned up in grand jury March 16. Earlier he Columbus, Ohio, He left there told newsmen he thought Garri today saying he was going to son wanted to question him about activities "during 1962 Chicago. which are related to Mr. SergioThe arrest order for Novel Arcacha Smith."followed the grand jury's indict- Arcacha, now living in Dallas, ment yesterday of Clay L. Shaw, Tex., said he never heard of retired business executive, on a Novel. Arcacha headed an anti charge of "willfully and unlaw- Castro group here in 1961. fully conspiring" to murder Kennedy.In an affidavit, the districtattorney's office alleged that Big Band RecommendedNovel fled New Orleans while In its affidavit, filed with under subpoena. It said he Criminal District Court, the severed his business ties and district attorney's office said stated publicly that he had no Novel should be placed under intention of returning. sizables bond or the grand jury will be deprived of a mostAfraid of "Ilarassment" Important and material wit ness.In Columbus, Novel said he The arrest order was signed did not want to return to New by, Criminal Dist. Court Judge Orleans, without a guarantee of Matthew S. Braniff.limmunity from "harassment." Novel owned the Jamaican He was quoted as describing the Inn Bar, a lounge on North Garrison Investigation as "a Rampart Street on the fringe of fraud" and as saying he first the French Quarter, He sold the helped the district attorney but property SundayIn another development today, Criminal Dist. Court Judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr. was named to preside at the murder conspiracy trial of Shaw, 54, who will spend the Easter weekend on the Mississippi. Gulf Coast with Garrison's approval.Garrison has said he will prove that the Kennedy assassi- nation resulted from a New Orleans-based conspiracy, He commenced his investigation last October.Shaw, who retired in October 1965 as managing director of the International Trade Mart here, has been free on $10,000 bond since his arrest March 1Shaw was discharged from Southern Baptist Hospital here last night after being treated for fatigue and an old back injury. He entered the hospital Saturday.Garrison had sald earlier he would bypass the grand jury and file e bill of information bo fore bringing Shaw to trial,Garrison already had won ruling from a three-judge state court panel that sufficient evidence was presented at a preliminary hearing to warrant holding Shaw for trialRusso AppearsShaw was charged yesterday in grand Jury true bill with willfully and unlawfully con spiring with David W. Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald-and-un named others to murder John F Kennedy,(Shaw's attorney said last night his client would plead pot guilty to the indictment and would request, a bill of particulars in the case, UPI reported, Shaw is to be arraigned next week.)Perry Raymond Russo, 25, star witness for Gurrison in last week's emotional court hearing, made a surprise appearance before the grand Jury before the announcement of the indicts ment,Russo told the three-judge court last week he heard Shaw, Ferrie and Oswald plotting in mid-September 1983 to kill Ken nedy. Shaw is the only one of the conspirators named in the Indictmont who is still living,Ferrie, 47, was found dead in bed here Feb, 22 Ferrio Was under investigation at that time by Garrison,The Warren Commission con cluded that Oswald was the sole assassin of Kennedy in Dallas on Nov, 22, 1963. No evidence could be found, the commission said, of a conspiracy but it said that it could not categorically establish that there was no con spiracyOswald was shot in the base mont of the Dallas police station by Jack Ruby two days after the assassination![signature] Wash Sta 23 Juan 6.7