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 the town's jail and killed them. The Daily Public Ledger reported the killings in a brief item published September 22, 1900. The four were people in the custody of that jail before the mob took them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.