Died in jail or a lockup
George Ware
According to a short item in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union published May 1, 1883, George Ware was taken from a jail by a mob and lynched. The item gives no date for the killing and does not name the jail where he was held. Nothing else about him appears in this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Sacramento Daily Record-Union reports that a mob took George Ware from a jail and lynched him.
Reported by: Sacramento Daily Record-Union (reporters).