Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name is not given in the New Orleans dispatch printed in the Delaware Gazette, was one of four men taken from the jail at Pont Chatoula, Louisiana, by a mob late on the night of September 20, 1900. According to the dispatch, the mob hanged him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A New Orleans news dispatch reports that a mob took him from the Pont Chatoula jail and lynched him.
Reported by: New Orleans news dispatch (reporters).