On Tuesday afternoon while a horse was being unyoked in the Lion Hotel yard, it bolted up a narrow entrance into the private yard of the hotel, colliding with and knocking down a ladder upon which was a painter named Panton, who was pitched off, and fell a distance of about 20 feet.
When picked up he was unconscious.
Dr. Wallace attended, and found that Panton had received two very severe scalp wounds, and considerable injury to his neck and right shoulder.
Continuing on its career, the horse rushed up four steps through a doorway leading to the bar, from which place it was with difficulty removed.
Source: Skegness Herald 22nd June 1900
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