Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, which reported it in September 1900, four people were taken from a jail at Pontchatoula, Louisiana, and lynched by a mob. The short newspaper note gives none of their names. It records the killings but nothing about the people themselves.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: short undated newspaper note.