Morning Herald

Arrest by the Coroner.

Washington Secor and Jonas Coleman, the driver and agent of the Harlem Railroad Cars, by whose carelessness and inattention to their business, a fine little girl was deprived of life, on Sunday, in consequence of being run over by the cars while they were driving at an unlawful rate through the street, were yesterday arrested by order of the Coroner, and held to bail. At the Coroner's inquest held upon the body of the child at the Hospital, from the testimony of Mr. James Wardlin and John Hohman, it appeared that the deceased, aged about eight years, in company with her little sister, were crossing the Bowery, hand in hand, at the corner of Grand street, when the cars came down at a rapid rate, and without even an attempt to check their speed, the horses were driven over the child; one of its legs lying across the track, the whole four wheels passed over it, crushing and mangling it in a most shocking manner. The cars were not even then stopped, and after they had been, and the circumstance was made known at the Company's Office, the driver and the agent both denied all knowledge of the accident. The child was picked up by the persons above mentioned, and carried to the Hospital, where, in about five minutes after the limb had been amputated, the little sufferer expired in the most excruciating agony. The jury of course returned a verdict in conformity with the foregoing facts.

The Coroner has faithfully performed his duty in the arrest of the immediate principals implicated in the violent death of this child, and it is to be hoped that the perpetrators may not escape punishment.

The neighborhood in which the accident occurred was yesterday in a great state of excitement. A mob of three or four hundred people assembled near Grand street, some with pickaxes and other implements, with which they threatened to tear up the rails. The arrest of the offenders by the coroner, however, it is hoped, will have the effect of allaying this hostile feeling towards the company, to whom we earnestly recommend a more careful policy in the management of their dangerous vehicles through our most frequented streets.