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The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
y a horse and wagon driven by Joseph Haberstraw, on 17th, between Broad and Marshall streets. Haberstraw was arrested the same evening and confined in the 1st Station-House, and was yesterday brought before the Mayor to be examined. Philip Toppin testified that he saw the lad Graham playing, with two other children, in the street. Defendant came along in his wagon whipping his horse, which was going at a trot — between that and a break — a boy on the seat appeared to be cautioning thified that Haberstraw was pulling, jerking and whipping the horse. He stopped the wheel when it was on the child's head. Afterwards he said that the child had no business in the street. The child was between the wheels when it was picked up by Toppin. The horse was going pretty rapid. Haberstraw commenced whipping the horse about ten steps past the corner of Broad and 17th streets, pulling the reins, &c. The animal appeared to fret under the lashing. Henry Haberstraw, (the lad in the w