McDonald was the first man to hang at Pentonville Prison. Chief executioner Albert Pierrepoint would later find it "the finest scaffold in the world". (30 September 1902)
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Saturday 8th of February 1902 (-) — Founder of the Protestant Truth Society John Kensit dies of pneumonia and blood poisoning. Kensit died due to the result of a wound he received in September that year when he was struck by a chisel thrown by a protester as he arrived at a meeting in Birkenhead.