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 25 years f…
