Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was one of four men held in the jail at Pont Chatoula, Louisiana. Late on the night of September 20, 1900, a mob took the four men from the jail and killed them, according to a New Orleans dispatch printed in the Delaware Gazette. The jail held these men when the mob came for them.
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).