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 sex for any of the four. Race is listed as Black in the record, but the note itself does not say who the four were or who held them. Nothing in the account identifies the jail's officers or whether they resisted the mob or handed over the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: short undated newspaper note.