“The Swashbuckling Bandit King”

The unprecedented manhunt entered its fifth week on Aug. 19, 1934 with two of the six escapees from Texas’ Death Row still on the loose.Sentenced to two and a half centuries for his many crimes, Raymond Hamilton, an on-again off-again member of the Barrow Gang, entered the Texas Department of Corrections in 1933. He was quickly befriended by Joe Palmer, a career criminal doing a measly...

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