The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Daring garroting case.

--One of the most daring cases of garroting and robbery which has ever come under our knowledge was perpetrated about seven o'clock Wednesday night last upon Mr. Augustus Haxall, who resides in Henrico county, a short distance from this city. On arriving in the neighborhood of Screamersville he stopped his horse and alighted from his buggy for the purpose of examining some defeat in the harness. After making everything right he was about getting in the buggy again, when a couple of villains made a murderous assault on him and felled him senseless to the ground. Mr. Haxall does not know how long he remained in this unconscious state, but on recovering his senses his horse and buggy bad been driven off, and his pockets rifled of about forty dollars in money and an order on William G. Dandridge for $1,100.

Yesterday a white boy, named Isaac Burney, offered for sale to Mr. Jimmi, a fanner in Screamersville, a raw hide, which he bought for $63; but soon afterwards a policeman called and stated that there was fastened to Mr. Haxall's buggy at the time of the robbery a similar article, and demanded to know from whom Jimmi had purchased it. On receiving the information he proceeded to arrest the boy, and afterwards carried the hide to Mr. Haxall, who readily identified it as the one which had been stolen from him. The case will be brought before the Mayor this morning, when it is hoped developments may be made which will lead to the arrest of the other parties.