Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-17
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 the recluse, Thomas C.. Lockwood, who
 lived on the Middlebury road, are ex-
 pected to arrive here from New York
 where they were arrested Saturday by
 Detective Dodds, assisted by the New { York police. Instead of two or three being concerned 1t now transpires that
 four were in the deed, which looks to
 be one of the coldest blooded affairs
 that ever happened in these parts. The
 four men are Frederick Preston,
 Charles Bassett, Edward Leonard and
 Joseph Cenesky. The public is safe . from Bassett for four or five years, as
 he is serving sentence i'll Ossining
 state prison on the Hudson The delay
 in the mems transmissiOll to this city
 Is caused by the process of preparing
 and issuing the necessary requisition
 papers. Leonard, Cenesky Preston
 and Bassett are all strike breakers by
 trade. When Farley sent out the alarm
 to his Helltenants throughout the coun-
 try, Leonard, Cenesky and Preston re
 spOnded in person. According to some
 of the New York papers they had been
 working here up to that time and the
 promise of excitement and big pay as
 they considered it, was a temptation
 they could not resist and they went
 to Farley in New York.
 The old saying that murder will out
 seems to be maintained in this matter,
 for apparently had not Preston re-
 turned here on visit short time ago
 the identity of the assailants of
 Nc Lockwood would still be hys-
 tery. But Preston came here. It Is.
 said his conscience bothered him a
 good deal and that he consulted an at-
 torney to find the best means by which
 he could escape the punishment his deed warranted This disclosure brought on another and finally 1t reached the attention of the police who nailed him immediately and extracted sduring the examination held here by Coroner Mix. Preston was detained in the police station until Friday when he went. to New York with Detective Dodds and is now held there to as sist in completing the requisition pa pers.
 cal trolley hands were retained by the Interborough company after the strike of the employees of that concern was declared lost, and Preston got work as a guard for the Brooklyn Rapid Tran sit company. Neither Leonard nor Cenesky knew of the arrest of either until they met tn police headquarters in New York. They expressed a will lingness to tell all they knew and their statements do not essentially differ.
 While passing LOckwOOd's house one day, Preston remarked that the old man was known to- have. 2 lot of money in an iron bound trunk in his house and that he lived alone. Ac- cording to another paper they accord ingly planned the murder of the old man. On February 25, they met in Bridgeport, came on to Waterbury with the express purpose of murdering him and that evening they went to his house and left him, as they supposed, dead. They failed to get what they went for. however. his money, and it seems they did not expect the resist ance the old man put up. Bassett is said to have been the one who dealt the final blow and dtdianosbi0f1the Clubbing. ei'9 J 'o 2EtDnf oEI
 Preston claims he was on watch at the gate while the others were inside. Cenesky claims he was the one who was outside and that when he heard cries for help from his comrades, who were amazed at the strength of the old man, he went and helped them. They first introduced themselves as agents for trolley company and wanted him to sign a petition favoring road through the vicinity. While the old man was reading the paper. Gne of the Quartette struck him on the head from behind. The blow did not even daze | the old man. He ran for an old mus ket he was accustomed to keep loaded. Bassett ran after him and as the, ,Old I man seized the weapon he was struck the second blow. There was then q 1 struggle, blow after blow was dealt l the old recluse until he was uncOn- scious, and as the assailants believed, dead, on the floor. They then ransack- ed the house but failed to find any money. They had an idea that $2O.- GOO was concealed there.
 Cenesky was an electric light trim | mer. Leonard was mOtOrman and it | was his car, that brought in the body | of Officer MendelssOhn the Sunday | night he was shot dead on car at the | terminus on North Main street. It l will be recalled that the crew of the | car in which the officer was on fled | across the lots when firing began that l awful Sunday night. They had some n x1,, .;x,. terrible news. being strangers here. \ It is reported that Bassett bought | out Irving Wolcott's pool room. made famous during the trial of the trolley strikers. but Attorney ThOms. who did Wolcott's business for him at that | time does not think so. His impress i sion is that the owners of the pool tables took them back when WoleOtt | gave up the business. However. Bas- sett. Leonard and Cencsky did not make themselves favorites with the people during the time they lived here It is said that Bassett and Leonard were interested in house of doubtful fame in the West end. Leonard made himself very we'll known. To mind his own business seemed to be impos- sible with him. He invited trouble whenever possible. and was some what of dandy fin his way. but an of fensive one.
 Murder in the first degree will be the charge against each of the men un- less. probably in the case of reston who will be looked upon as state as the disclosures made by him was what brought, about the ar rest of the others.
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