Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a short undated note in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, published September 25, 1900, four people were taken from a jail in Pontchatoula, Louisiana, and lynched by a mob. The note gives no names, ages or other details about them. It does not say how the mob got into the jail or whether the jailer or other officers resisted, gave up the keys or handed the people over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: undated newspaper note.