Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-05
JURY CHOSEN Men Who Will Try Lockwood Slayers.
HEARING EVIDENCE.
Dr. Frost Tells of the Condition in Which He Found the
 Dead Man.

the night of February 27, at his home
 on the Middlebury road, began in the superior court this morning at 9:45, be
 fore Judge Robinson and jury. Attor. ney Meigs assisted States Attorney Kellogg in the prosecution and Attor. ney Russell defended.
 Notwithstanding the great interest shown in the case in it's early stages, very little was manifest to-day, judg. 1 ing from the many vacant seats, for 1 until the special jurors, numbering fif- ty-fve, entered the court very few eX- cept half a dozen lawyers and the wit. nesses in the case were present. The l other three accused concerned in the case, Edward Leonard, Joseph Gen. esky and Fred Preston, came up from l jail this morning with Bassett, and 1 though they were not on trial they | displayed the most lively interest ill every word and act in the proceedings. Each juror was challenged and his an l swers seemed to be well weighed by | the accused before he accepted or ex- cused him. The accused was entitled l to twenty challenges peremptory and he fully availed himself of them, using almost two hours before he de cided to accept two jurors. Fourteen I had been examined in that time and only one, Francis B. Coe of Wolcott, was excused by the state. He had formed an opinion of the case which evidence could not remove. Bonnet C.. Wooding, farmer in Yalesville, was the second juror excused by the state.
 Richard Aspen, B, retired me chanic living in Seymour, was excused by the state on account of an evident defect ill his hearing.
 Elmer Griswold, a farmer in Pros pect, was excused by the court, he hay ing formed an opinion on the case Robert Loomis, retired carpenter and painter in Naugatuck, was excused for the same reason; also Newton H. Snow, farmer, North Branford; Ches- ter Pram, grocer, Branford; Reno Swift farmer, Cheshire. Frederick Ab- bolt, miller, Middlebury, knew the al- legged murdered man, lived within three miles of him, but knew of no req son why he could not sit on the jury. No doubt the old man was hurt" he said, but as to who hurt him" he had formed no opinion. He believed, how. der in the first degree, and also with the crime. He was excused by the court. Berkley l.. Frisbie. teamster WOlcott, had formed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused and he was excused. George F. San ford, farmer. Oxford, was excused on account of his hearing. Robert Fenn, farmer, Middlebury, had formed an opinion on the case and was excused.
 The jury was finally selected in this order: Edward D. Sanford, ice dealer. Hamden; Raymond F. Stiles, farmer and eXpressman, Southbury; Frank Norton, farmer. Madison; James j. Parker, produce buyer, Merlden; Cliff ford k. Treat, farmer, Orange; Fred E. Jacob, farmer, North Haven; sam uel Foote. farmer, Branford: w. R. Brown, rubber worker, Naugatuck; Benjamin Stone. real estate dealer. New Haven; Robert Payne. farmer. Woodbridge: William Jones. farmer Beacon Falls; Robert IT. Griffin, real estate dealer. Ansoiiia.
 1t was 12:30 before the last juror was selected, and the accused had then remaining only one challenge. The jurors were accordingly impan- elled and sworn and the information to them. The three prisoners, Bas- sett, Cenesky and Leonard, are charged on different counts with mur- ever, the accused was connected with robbery, and that it was while perpe- trating the act of robbery they mur- dered the old man, intiicting the wounds which caused his death on April II.
 Dr c. W. <. Frost was the first wit ness called. He testified to attending Lockwood on March 2. The old man was sitting in a chair at home. his head and face and clothes covered with blood. He was in a dazed cOndi- ton and very weak. The blood was clotted and black and dry. He lived alone in the house. There were eleven wounds on his head. five of them Sc were. three of them very much SO Each wound was through the scaln. The three wounds on the top of the head we're made by sharp instru- ment, while those on the side of the head were made by a blunt instru ment None of the wounds was in q condition to he sewed.
 Under crOss-examinati0n pr Frost testified that he did not believe Lock wood realized he was receiving medi- cal attention on the occasion of the first visit. though he did emit sounds of pain. On that occasion there were present a Mir Atwood and some of the local detectives. Lockwood died from the wounds inflicted on his head and at the post mOrtem examination held thirty-six hours after his death a su- perabundance of blood was found in the blood vessels, which were enlarged.
 There was also shock and confusion of the brain. Dr Frost was on the stand the greater part of the daF.
 From the questions asked by Mr Russell 1t was apparent that he tried to prove negligence or incompetency on the part of thOze who had the osd man in charge. Also that his age ana natural physical condition contributed | somewhat to his death. and therefore that Bassett was not directly reSponSi- | ble and consequently not guilty of the crime charged
 Preston who. t is said will testify for the state. did not occupy a seat in the dock with Cenesky and Leonard but a chair outside. opposite the sher- frs rcstrum
 Chenesky has not yet determined what he will da. but it is said that