From the August 22, 1893 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Officer Madigan of the Myrtle Avenue court squad had an exciting  time yesterday afternoon when he went out to the piggery district, on the the boundary of Flatbudh, to secure Annie Wilson, 10 years old, whom, it was claimed by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, was not properly cared for by her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Cursel, with whom she was living. When the officer started with Annie from the hovel a mob of twenty or thirty women threw stones at him and tried to rescue the child. He took her safely, however, to the society’s office and in court this mornings he was sent to St. Joseph’s Home.”