Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to round-up wrong-doers, usu. suspects or criminals.

1829		N.-Y. Eve. Post 14 Jan. 2/2: I never stole any thing [...] I know nothing more about the counterpane than what I’ve told, and I think it’s very hard to haul me up for it.
1856		B.H. Hall College Words (rev. edn) 251: hauled up. In many colleges, one brought up before the Faculty is said to be hauled up.
1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor II 154/1: If you was known to touch the traps, you’d git hauled up afore the beak.
1883		J. Greenwood Tag, Rag & Co. 32: The likelihood of his being hauled up for being concerned in a murder.
1890		Sporting Times 4 Jan. 6: Here’s a chap hauled up at Clerkenwell Police Court for furiously driving a hearse!
1901		Boy’s Own Paper 24 Aug. 743: One of you youngsters might do pounds worth of damage [,...] So mind! the very next one of you boys that comes in here gets hauled up.
1999		Guardian Weekend 20 Nov. 39: Tomi’s mamma was [...] hauled up before the Gestapo with Tomi in tow.

2. to call to account, to bring up for a reprimand.

1836		Lancaster Gaz. 12 Nov. 4/2: ‘A few days before that you were hauled up [...] for abusive conduct and violent conduct’.
1854		Monongahela Mirror (Morgantown, WV) 18 Nov. 1/6: ‘Well,’ said his honor to a negro who had been hauled up for stealing a pullet, ‘what have you got to say for yourself?’.
1883		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 1 Dec. 6/2: ‘I am paying [...] to save myself the humiliation and scandal of being hauled up on a false [charge]’.
1906		New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 94: We were hauled up specially [...] to see Baxendale receive a thrashing.
1919		Marvel 3 Mar. 3: That beggar will have a smash one of these days, or he’ll be hauled up and fined.