PETTY SESSIONS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. (Before J. JAMESON, Esq., W. HARRISON, Esq., HON. A. ERSKINE, J. THOMPSON, Esq., W. PRITT, Esq., and GENERAL BROUGHAM.) A CAUTION TO JUVENILES. – A little fellow named JOHN BELL, residing in Duke—street, appeared to answer a charge preferred against him by MR. C. FAIRER, Clerk to the Penrith Local Board of Health, for throwing stones from a catapult in Middlegate, on the 4th inst., to the danger of passengers. – The boy pleaded guilty, and was fined 1s and costs, or seven days’ imprisonment, the Bench intimating that if any similar case came before them again, they would deal very severely with it, for they were determined to put a stop to these wicked and dangerous practices. A SON USING A DANGEROUS THREAT TO HIS FATHER. – JAMES DOYLE, the elder, clerk to an accountant, appeared to prefer a charge against his son, JAMES DOYLE, the younger, for having on Friday, the 11th of September threatened to mark him and disable him for many months to come, and from the above and other threats, he (complainant) was afraid that defendant would do him some bodily injury, and therefore prayed that he be ordered to find sureties to keep the peace and be of good behaviour. Defendant, when called, did not appear, and complainant said he had no idea where he was to be found. He was now twenty-three years of age, and did not reside with his parents, and was a most dissolute, drunken character, sleeping in outhouses and places of that description. The Bench said they could do nothing unless defendant was present, and told complainant to at once apply for a warrant as soon as defendant’s whereabouts was ascertained. STEALING CUCUMBERS AND ASSAULTING THE POLICE. - HENRY SMITH, a robust and resolute-looking young navvie, was brought up in custody, charged with stealing five cucumbers, of the value of 2s. 6d., the property of MR. JAMESON, of Nord Vue, Armathwaite. ISABELLA JAMES, housekeeper to MR. JAMESON, said a little after ten o’clock on Monday morning last, she saw the prisoner and another man in her master’s garden, and apparently interfering with the cucumber frames. She went towards the men, and perceiving some cucumbers protruding from prisoner’s pocket, she endeavoured to take them from him. He resisted, and on her charging him with robbing her master’s garden, prisoner gave no denial, but said he had several cucumbers in his pocket. – He then began to use most insulting language, and being afraid he would do her some harm, witness ran away, and on being followed, she called loudly for assistance. P.C. JOS. BELL, who happened to be in the neighbourhood at the time, and hearing cries of “Murder”, in a woman’s voice, ran at once to the spot, and saw the two men about a hundred yards off, running down a corn field. On learning what had transpired, he gave chase, and succeeded in coming up with the prisoner. Seeing some cucumbers ticking out of his pocket, the officer said “What have you got here ?” at the same time endeavouring to secure the vegetables. The prisoner made use of a profane expression, and immediately commenced a violent attack upon the officer, striking out with both his fists, and severely abused the officer, whose upper lip was cut through. So violent did the prisoner eventually become that BELL was compelled in self-defence to use his stick, which he brought with considerable force in contact with prisoner’s forehead. The latter then threw himself upon the ground, and drawing a clasp-knife from his pocket, said to the policeman, “ You________, if you touch me I will let your b____y guts out.” The officer, notwithstanding, closed with him, secured the knife, and took prisoner into custody. He, however, refused to walk, and had to be taken to the lock-up on Hesket in a cart. While the struggle was going on with prisoner, the other man decamped. The Bench, for the theft, sent the prisoner to Carlisle Gaol for a month with hard labour, and for the assault upon the policeman, to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. SELLING DRINK DURING PROHIBITED HOURS. – CHRISTOPHER PEARS, landlord of the Blue Bell Inn, Penrith, was charged by the police with permitting drinking upon his licensed premises during prohibited hours, on Sunday the 6th of September. INSPECTOR BERTRAM stated that he visited the house about half past four o’clock and found two men sitting in the kitchen with three glasses of ale before them. One of the men admitted he had paid for the ale. The police had had great trouble with the house, and constables had been stationed in the yard in plain clothes to watch the premises, but as no suitable place could be found, they had not been able to detect any breach of the law. - Defendant admitted the offence. – Two previous convictions were recorded against the defendant. The Bench, after informing the defendant he had rendered himself liable to a penalty of £20, imposed a fine of 40s., and 9 s. 6d. costs. ====================================================================== barb, ontario, canada.