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Old Berrien Newsletter, Volume 2, Number 1 (Spring 2008): “The Last Hanging in the Old County Jail”, Spring 2008

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Collection number: ca-012-002-003
Description 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,...
Dates: Spring 2008