JOHN GREER
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Officer Rank: Guard
Memorial Panel: 59-W: 25
Department: Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch: August 27, 1938
Cause: NIFE
Age: 41
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Guard Greer was stabbed in the stomach by a group of eight inmates as they escaped from the Eastham Prison facility. Guard Greer died 11 days later of his injuries. A posse of lawmen searched for the convicts, four of whom were shot, two drowned and two were captured.
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