Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-22
ONE YEAR IN PRISON
Philip Paquette Wa. Sentenced for the Shooting of Isadore
 Monnier.

for conspiring to rob old man Lock wood, with Leonard, Cenesky and Bassett, was resumed before the jury and Judge Shumway ill the superior court to-day. At II o'clock Preston took the stand. He denied every word uttered by the states witnesses, Leon ard, Cenesky, Nissell, Spellman and Lewis. He said that Cenesky insist ed upon going to the old mans house and that he himself took Cenesky out of town to keep him out of harm. He knew Cenesky would get into trouble if he remained here, he was so crook ed. He did not leave, he said, be- cause of the murder He knew the police had their eyes on him and Cen esky. The money with which he paid their fares to Brooklyn, \. Y., he bor- rowed and he knew that Cenesly would not get into trouble if he kept his eyes on him there.
 Cenesky told Preston that he had robbed fellow crook of S1S0 in q saloon in the Brooklyn district. The money was tied or sewed in the mans shirt and he had fallen asleep when Cenesky took it. Preston did not mind this because he knew tbe man who was as crooked as Cenesky would have done the same to Cenesky had he had the chance. Of this sum Cen esky gave another fellow crook $60 to help him get cut of town. Cenesky told Preston that we had killed Lockwood'.' and he threatened Pres ton with instant death if he gave them away. This took place In Brooklyn, \. '. Soon after Preston came to town and remained eleven days. He did not inform the police of what Cenesky had told him. He said he knew when Lewis, SpelIman and Mis- sell had ''peached' to the police. Cen ensky told him he did not care if the police were after him because they could not catch him. The reason he finally told the police what he knew was because he believed his own life was in danger from Cenesky, Bassett and Leonard. and that when they were arrested he would be safe.
 Attorney Kellogg tried to show that the reason Preston .'squealed' was to get reward.
 EmphaticalIy. Preston denied ever meeting Spellman and the others by agreement on the green to confer about robbing Lockwood's house, or that he ever told them the old man had money in the house or that he ever said he had seen 1t. In fact, he testified that he had never been in the old mans house and consequently he could not know if there were any money there.
 The defense called upon Mir Larkin, superintendent of the clock shop, James c. Whiting. Thomas Martin and William Henderson, foremen i'll the concern. They testified that Pres l ton worked in their respective depart ments, that he did his work just the same as any other employe. and fur ther than that they knew nothing about him. He was taken on in the busy season and when the rush was over he was dropped with others. At 1920 all the evidence was in and court adjourned until Tuesday morn- ing, Judge Shumway being called to attend the funeral of friend. Philip Paquette. charged with as- saulting Isidore Monnier with Intent to murder him, pleaded guilty to as- sault with intent to kill and was sen tenced to not less than one year and not more than five in the state prison. Paauette fired three or four shots at Monnier in the partments of Mrs Will liam Chipman on Spring street one night as Monnier was playing check CTS with the woman. Jealousy was said to be the motive of the shoot ing. Monnier was laid up in hospi- tai for some weeks. There Is diff ference of about twenty years In the sentence between the two charges of asSault with intent to kill and assault with intent to murder.