John Spear, alias John Groom, was born in 1836 in the United Kingdom. He had blue eyes and light hair.
Mr. Spear was incarcerated in the Massachusetts State Prison three separate times, on June 17, 1851, March 10, 1863, and May 11, 1881. Officials transferred him to the Massachusetts Reformatory sometime between December 20, 1884 and February 21, 1885. He died there at 49 on May 30, 1885.
