Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A short newspaper note in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, published September 25, 1900, reports that four people were lynched at Pontchatoula, Louisiana, after being taken from the jail. The note gives no names, ages, or other details about them. It does not say how the mob reached them or whether the jail's officers resisted or handed over the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: short undated newspaper note.