Skegness Magazine

BOUGHT LAUDANUM AT SKEGNESS
Nottingham Man Tries To Poison Himself in the Train.
At Highgate, London, last Wednesday, Harry Hart, 38, grocer and beer dealer, of Montfort street, Nottingham, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by taking laudanum whilst travelling on the Great Northern Railway between Skegness and Finsbury Park.
Defendant, it was said, had been staying at Skegness for the benefit of his health. On his arrest he said he did not get better. He bought twopennyworth of laudanumm boarded a train at Skegness, and on the way to London drank the poison. He added: I thought I should have been dead by the time I reached London.”

At the first hearing of the case he said he did not see the folly and wickedness of his act. He then complained that his head was so bad, and was remanded to Brixton Prison.
Now he promised the magistrate that he would not do such a thing again, and was handed over to his friends.

Source: Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News, 29th October, 1913.