[4] Sarah moved the family to West Dallas, where Raymond was raised and where he received his minor public education.
He used to fence stolen bicycles through future sheriff Smoot Schmid and began committing petty thefts.
Hamilton's presence in the group was often problematic, with Clyde Barrow and other members of the gang commonly referring to his girlfriend Mary O'Dare as "the washerwoman.
[10] One of the other escapees, Joe Palmer, mortally wounded guard M.J. Crowson[12] and caused a series of events which led to Texas Prison System chief Lee Simmons to issue a shoot to kill order against Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
Hamilton left the Barrow Gang after the fight about Mary O'Dare and was recaptured by authorities on April 25, 1934.
[10] Hamilton escaped and went on a crime spree with another former Barrow gang member Ralph Fults.
In February 1935, Fults and Hamilton burglarized a National Guard Armory in Beaumont, Texas, taking two Thompson submachine guns.
[citation needed] Hamilton was recaptured April 5, 1935, in a Fort Worth railyard while posing as a hobo.
The group canvassed the railyard and came upon Hamilton around 50 feet north of the East First Street overpass, "sprawled on the tracks" with six or seven hobos nearby.
[citation needed] Hamilton was executed on May 10, 1935, at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, by electric chair.