This issue focuses on “The Last Hanging in the Old County Jail,” documenting the 1909 execution of Marshall Lewis in the Berrien County Jail in Nashville, Georgia. The newsletter recounts the murder of assistant postmaster Clifford Rutherford during a burglary in Lenox on April 26, 1909, Lewis’s arrest, trial, confession, and execution. It includes extensive excerpts from The Nashville Herald describing the investigation, the public response, and the legal proceedings leading to the July 9, 1909 hanging—the final execution carried out in the old jail’s gallows tower. The issue also contains Lewis’s written spiritual testimony composed shortly before his death. A brief section at the end promotes the Berrien County Heritage Register plaque program operated by the Berrien Historical Foundation.

Subjects (Names): Alexander, Jos. A.; Askew, P. H.; Avera, I. C.; Carter, Pleas; Chastain, E. S.; Griner, James B.; Harrison, Wm. G.; Kinnard, John; Lewis, Marshall; McGahee, C. M.; Mitchell, Robert G.; Mullis, A. D.; Parrish, J. H.; Robinson, J. D.; Rutherford, Clifford; Sears, J. E.; Shytle, W. T.; Sirmans, J. B.; Thomas, W. E.