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 from it and killed them, according to a brief item in the Daily Public Ledger of September 22, 1900. The report gives no names, ages, or genders for the four. It does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob, gave up keys, or handed the four people over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.