The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
GET4FOR LOCKWOOD MURDER
TFO PRISONERS CONFESS-ONB
MAN ALREADY IN SING SING.
The Fourth Man, whom Two Accuse OF
InStigatins the Crime. was the Agent in
Rounding Up the Rest-MurdererS EN.
pected 10 Find a Trunkful OF Money.


The murder Of Thomas @. lockwood,
the eighty-two-year-old reoluse who was
found bruised and unconscious in his FARM
house on the outskirts Of Waterbury, Conn,
on Feb. 20 and who died from his injuries
on April 10, was cleared up here yesterday
by the arrest Of three men, two Of whom
confess that they took part In the assault
and say the third man arrested planned
the crime. A fourth man who had hand
in it is now IN Sing Sing serving a sentence
for burglary committed in Brooklyn on
March H.
The three men under arrest In this city
are Joseph Cenesky, alias Joe A. smith,
q years old Of 4299 Third avenue; Edward
Leonard, 80 years old, Of t27 Gold street.
Brooklyn, and Frederick c. Preston, ~
years old Of s75 North Main street, Water
bury, Conn. The man in Sing Sing is
Charles Bassett.
The first three men hail from Water
bury, and Bassett has spent most Of his
life in Brooklyn. The four 80 Leonard
and Cenesky say, planned TO rob old Lock-
wood because they thought he had lot
Of money hidden in his farmhouse After
attacking him and leaving him unconscious
they ransacked the farmhouse, but they
only found a cheap nickel watch There
was couple Of hundred dollars In the
house, but they missed it.
Leonard, Cenesky and Preston came here
while the marlborough strike was on,
and the two former got jobs on the Inter
borough system, Leonard as motorman
on the Sixth avenue elevated and Cenesky
a. a guard on the Third avenue elevated.
Preston got Job as guard for the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Leonard and Cene5ky
we're arrested while they we're at work
yesterday.
Severed days ago Preston went back
10 Waterbury for a visit, and while he was
there the Waterbury police nabbed him
as a suspect for the Lockwood murder.
He denied that he had anything TO do with
the murder, but he told the Waterbury
police he thought he could aid them in
rounding up the men who did commit it.
Preston said these men were in New York,
and on Thursday Lieut. Dobbs Of the
Waterbury police brought him here.
Dobbs asked the aid Of the local police,
and Acting Captain McCauley and De-
tective O'Neill we're told on to help him.
They had no trouble in rounding up the
men they were after. Preston knew that
Bassett had been sent to Sing Sing. Bas-
sett was arrested with another man for
robbing the premises Of Nicholas Vein
berg Of S. Fifth avenue. Brooklyn, and
two weeks after the robbery he was SEN
fenced to eight years Imprisonment in State
prison.
Leonard and Ceneslcy soon after their
arrest signifed Their willingness to tell
all they knew. The confessions differ only
in minor details. Both say that Bassett
was the man who treated the old farmer
the most brutally.
Lockwood was alone in his house on
Feb. 90. In the early afternoon he was
visited by two men who said they were
after signatures TO petition to have a
railroad built which would come near
Lockwoods farm property. He talked for
some time 20 the two visitors and agreed
to sign the petition. He sat down at
table to sign a paper, and one Of the men
struck him from behind Although old,
Lockwood was a hardy fellow, and he
Immediately showed fight. He jumped up
and wrestled with his assaiants and
dragged one Of them over toward a corHer
Of the room, where he kept a loaded sho'
gun.
Ceneslty says that Bassett and Leonard
were the two who entered the house and
had the struggle while he waited outside
to watch. When he heard the two calling
for help he entered the house and aided in
the final subduing Of Lockwood. The old
man was knocked out 10y blows over the
head with his own shotgun, delivered,
Cenesky says, by Bassett,
C7ncsky, Leonard and Preston we're ao-
quainted in Waterbury, They were pass
ing the Lockwood farm one day when, as
Ccne,ky says, Preston remarked that Lock
wood was very wealthy and kept his money
in an ironbound trunk in his farmhouse.
Thav talked over robbing him, Cenesky
sars but P,oston did not go with the
Others the day Of thu Gss1, H.