Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-13
YESTERDAYS STORY
Throws More Light on Lockwood Murder Than Leonard's
 Evidence Did.

Edward Leonard, confederate in crime of Charles Bassett, must have been very interested in the proceed
 ings in the superior court yesterday, for it was the first time since the case against Bassett opened week ago yes terday that any evidence was given
 showing that he also struck old man
 Lockwood, According to Leonard and Cenesky, Bassett was the only one who struck Lockwood, but the evi-
 dence of Martin Van Buren Atwood yesterday put an entirely different light on Leonard's part in this tragedy. The thrOng that waits outside sle court room to see Bassett, Leonard, Cenesky and Preston leave for jail is
 growing larger daily It was very
 large yesterday and the windows in | the neighborhood appeared to have been rented. 1t seemed that all the
 small boys of the vicinity were there. l There must have been few hundred of them, while the inquisitive adults
 were larger in number than on any previous afternoon.
 For men in the shadow of death it
 would be difficult to find more indif- ferent or jolly looking trio. Leonard and Cenesky, who seem to keep as far apart as possible from each other all , day in the dock. are quite chatty
 when their spirits are linked by Sher- if Dunham's steel bracelets and they are helped into Sheriff Gillette's wagon and started for the depot.
 As for Bassett, he seemc the happi- lest of the lot. He was actually laugh ing yesterday afternoon as he walked
 down the steps of the court house to the hack in waiting, accompanied only by Sheriff Durham.
 MT Atwood. above mentioned, was the star witness for the state yester- day. He was long time on the stanc and he was the first to directly impli- cate Leonard in the actual cause of the death of Lockwood He told
 me-" said Atwood meaning Lock ! wood. "that both of them threw him
 down in the bedroom ard mauled him. and that the one who had hold of tho
 book for him to sign 0Jeonard) struck
 him the first blow. He got it on the
 side of the head and the other fellow
 struck him on top of the head. Had
 he been able to get his axe or gun in the bedroom. he said, he world have
 been able for them. The only descrip-
 ton he gave me of the men who as-
 saulted him was that they were young men. wore black clothes and derby
 hats. He did not say there was a
 third man there" Cenesky and Leonard said that they
 merely searched the room mp stairs
 and the back room down stairs, while
 according to what Lockwood told At
 wood they turned the house upside down.
 Detective DOdds looked over the
 place few days after the assault and
 found besides the blood marks already
 mentioned several indentations in the ceiling of the bedroom where the old
 man was struck down. showing where
 the musket had knocked against it
 when he raised the weapon to strike
 the old man. Ii is a low ceiling. He
 found 3S-caliber bullet on the table
 in the kitchen and the broken handle of a hatchet on the floor. Tn a stone
 wall in the yard he found the pieces of the revolver which Bassett broke on the old mans head. Regarding the
 confessions made by Cenesky. Leon ard and Preston. Cenesky made his first and in the presence of the others. Preston accompanied Detectives Dosds and Kennaugh to New York and 1t
 was not until after his return that he was arrested.