Thomas Fraser

Thomas H. Frazier was held at Washington, North Carolina, in May 1888, and one dispatch says he was guarded in a farmhouse near Blount's Creek before he was to be moved to the county jail. According to the Smyrna Times and the Indianapolis Journal, a group of masked men seized him during the night of Saturday, May 5, 1888, took him to the place of an earlier shooting, and killed him with gunfire. The Smyrna Times says his body was badly mutilated. The Delaware Ledger gives May 19 as the date of death instead.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch from Washington, N.C. says a masked mob seized him from the guarded farmhouse and shot him to death.

Reported by: Washington, N.C. news dispatch (Indianapolis Journal) (reporters).

Sources (5)

• Waterbury Evening Democrat, May 7, 1888, page 1 Waterbury Evening Democrat, May 7, 1888
• Morning Journal And Courier, May 7, 1888, page 3 Morning Journal And Courier, May 7, 1888
• The Indianapolis Journal, May 7, 1888, page 1 The Indianapolis Journal, May 7, 1888
• Smyrna Times, May 9, 1888, page 2 Smyrna Times, May 9, 1888
• The Delaware Ledger, May 19, 1888, page 1 The Delaware Ledger, May 19, 1888