Daily Advertiser ( London, England ), Friday, January 15,
1773
Minster, in the Isle of Sheppey, Jan. 8.
This Evening was interred here, the Body of Lewis FRAGER
, many Years Gunner at Sheerness Fort, and Deputy Water-Bailiff for the River
Medway. On Saturday Evening, the 26th
ult. a Person brought to the Garrison of Sheerness a Quantity of Oysters for
Sale, which FRAGER suspected were dishonestly acquired, and in Consequence of
his Office, examined the Vendor concerning them, who, without any other Reply,
gave him a violent Blow on the Head, which laid him senseless on the Stones, of
which Blow he lingered till the 3d instant, when he expired.
