Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people were held in the jail at Pontchatoula, Louisiana, when a mob took them out and killed them, according to a Daily Public Ledger report published September 22, 1900. The state held these four people in that jail, and the crowd reached them there. Their deaths were lynchings, carried out by a mob after they had been taken from the town's custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.