The Sun. — 1859-06-03 (London, England)

THE SUSPECTED CHILD MURDER IN LEEDS.— This (Thursday) morning, Thomas Smith, the pointsman charged with the murder of the infant child of Ellen Moxon, underwent a further examination at the Leeds Town Hall. Up to the present moment the body of the child has not been recovered, and although the chance of its discovery is every day rendered more problematical, hopes are oven yet entertained that the exertions of the police may succeed. Two additional witnesses were called, namely, William Brown, who corroborated the statement of Mrs. Moxon as to her visit to Millshay, to discover the child, on the day after its removal, and Abigail Wright, a respectable-looking young woman, who resides in Little Queen-street, and who was delivered of a child on the 16th ult , of which the prisoner was the father. In this case also, Smith had proposed that the child should go to nurse at Millshay, but his apprehension prevented him carrying out his design. The magistrates, after consulting together for some time, remanded the prisoner until Wednesday next, and refused to grant bail. The interest in this extraordinary case has greatly increased, and the Session Court, in which the examination took place' was crowded during the whole of the proceedings.--Leeds Mercury. AN ACT OF HEROlSM.—Yesterday, a child, eight years old, the son of one of our most respected merchants, was playing on the edge of one of the locks of the Grand Canal, Lower Mount-street, Dublin, his foot slipped, and he was at once precipitated into the lock, which contained from ten to twelve feet of water. His little playmates had the sense to give the alarm, but though a considerable number of persons rushed to the spot where the child was seen to rise and sink again repeatedly, the known depth of water paralysed all effort, and some cried for ropes, others for poles, but none seemed able to render any effective aid. At this critical juncture a young gentleman, Mr. Francis Webber, of Upper Mount-street, attracted by the crowd, ascertained the state of rushed to the spot, and having affairs, was pointed out the spot where the child was last seen to sink. To cast off his coat and waistcoat was the work of an instant, and though warned bysome person of the danger of the enterprise, he gallantly plunged in and dived to the bottom. This feat he performedd -repeatedly, but without success. He now ascended from the lock, and coolly divested himself of his boots and the remainder of his clothes. 'While doing so he, with the oY utmost composure, inquired of the bystanders where the child was last seen, and while doing s he observed a few air bubbles rise and burst on the surface. " There 1" cried the gallant fellow; and in ex instant he disappeared. For a few seconds all was suspense ; at length the surface was seen to break, and the noble fellow rose to the surface, bearing in his arms the apparently lifeless corpse of the child. The child was instantly taken by a car to Dr. Reed's establishment, Mount-street, and though to all appearance life was gone, after the application of the usual remedies respiration was restored, and the child was brought home to his parents, who, by his return, received the first intimation of his danger, and of his gallant rescue by the chivalrous heroism of a youth,—Freeman's Journal,  8.12V.11 _RETURNS.  An,Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in circulation during the week ending Saturday, the 21st day or May, 1859.