Age: 21
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 30 Sep 1902
Crime Location: Wentworth Street, Spitalfields, London
Execution Place: Pentonville
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
John MacDonald was convicted of the murder of John Groves 35 and sentenced to death.
He stabbed him in Wentworth Street, Spitalfields, London on Thursday 28 August 1902.
see National Archives - HO 144/672/100350, CRIM 1/75/7
see Portsmouth Evening News - Wednesday 01 October 1902
see Dundee Courier - Saturday 30 August 1902
see Homicide 1902