New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-19
THE MURDER OF FRAZIER AT LEX.
MOTION KY.

Some DAYS since published an account OF the
ao.,h If Mr.. Frazier of Lexington who was some-
what extensively known in this City as dealer in
I'll. and who : believed 20 have been murdered by
~ ise and the overseer Of bis farm. These parties
h,, hsn srres,ed and examined, and we notice have
-, Ia 20 b,l in the sum Of IS 900 esch. to appear
and sn.vsr .uoh changes shall be preferred against
them touching the matter. The facts in the case, ~
davelcped upou the preliminary examination, are thus
stated in The Louisville Co.rier'
Messrs. Frazier and Castemsn were partners 10
selling cattle and Mr. Frazier was absent rom eone
four opths receiving cattle forwarded 10 New ork
by his partner and disposing Of them Va Saturday
evening 3oth ul,., Mr. Frazier reached LeS'ny,on IN
the cars and bis partner conveyed MN .o"aru none
in his carrisee Mr.. Castlemsn insisted thst Mr..
Frszer should sup with him before going home, %
which he consented Mr.. Castlemsn promising TO &C
company him They rode over after supper, aud Mr..
Casemsn Immediately returned TO bis own residence.
In thirty or forty minutes after he received nforms-
ton in thai his friend and partner was dead
The brother Of Mr.. Casteman FASTENED TO the farm
Of Mr. Frazier. bat unable to get near the house
on account Of the rocity Of the dogs He says that
the house closed and shrouded in darkness Soon
afterwards Mr.. Lewis Casieman rode over on horse
back and rode up TO the house. He Knocked and
called some time before he could get any one to no
tee him. When he got in the house the mutilsted
corpse Of his friend was lying on couch, and the
carpets of the room had in that short time and in the
midst of such catastrophe this, been taken up
and washed and the floor cleaned.
When Mr. Casileman rode over with Mr.. Frazier.
no noticed that the oyerseor was dressed more
rorsblv than usual but when he went after the
catastrophe the overseer had changed hts clothing
snd had on pair of perfectly clean white pants'oons.
Mrs Frazier passed through the room containing the
dead BODY of her long absent husband ana betrayed
no hind OF emotion. She took Nc noice OF the body.
and seemed to care nothing about the event
Grgg. the name Of the overseerl, Mrs. Frazer
al her daughter ten years old, all stated the sane
story They represented that Mr. Frazier was sitting
! in tie porch with his wife and child, and suddenly
took notien in a few minutes after hs return from
four months absence to go To shooting rats. He rose,
took up the gun stumbled and he fell his gun dis
charged its contents through his hsnd blowing of the
end of the thumb. the contents passing into his sto-
I ach and liver The overseer picked up the diving
man carried him into the dining room and laid him
on the floor. In this condition 6rgg lett ms employer
/ and went ,f ard dressed himself in ces clothes
Short as the time was that interviewed between Mr..
Casteman's parting from Frazier and his return 70
the corpse some thirty or forty minutes these folks
used it industriously. As the husband OF Mrs Fra
| zier had stained her carpet in dying, she had him
! picked up from the floor and placed upon couch,
and then took up the carpet and cleaned OF the blood
Gregs clothes which he had on when Mr Frazier
arrived, were gone, and he has not produced them.
The fact that buttons found near the kitchen
fire. Mace seems to show how Grlgg cleaned his
| clothes While these operations were soing on the
house closed and fastened and vsled in darkness.
so that Mr. Castleman had some diihculty IN getting
| inside of the dwelling
A neighbor, living nearer than Mr.. Castleman, was
roused by his negro woman. She heard the report Of
the gun and heard the cry Of murder. She awakened
her master and was so excited with what she heard
| that he went over toward Mr.. Fraziers farm but
could not approach the dwelling on account Of the
dogs He saw that the house closed and IN dark
! ness but was confident that be heard the voice OF
Mrs Frazier at the back door and the child out in tho
yad.
One of the singular things about the story of Grigg
Mrs Frazier ana her child is that there not ashads
of difference in their statements. II almost nored-
lille that any three persons could thus see exactly
alike every portion Of the transaction.
These are some of the mysteries that envelope the
death of Frazier. If il not for the chllds state
mep DO one would be at all at loss as to the case OF
Fraz,r's death As the case stands, II seems quite
probable that the perons held to bail we're the psrPs
traitors Of the great crime.