17 Facts About Ralph Fults

Ralph Fults was a Depression-era outlaw and escape artist associated with Raymond Hamilton, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow of the Barrow Gang.

Ralph Fults escaped from the town's jail a week later after making a key from an old tobacco can.

Ralph Fults was recaptured and incarcerated in the Gatesville State School, from which he escaped on April 16,1927.

In 1929, Ralph Fults was arrested and convicted of burglary after selling stolen cigarettes to a grocer in Greenville, Texas.

Ralph Fults was eventually transferred to Eastham prison farm, from which he escaped with two other inmates on April 8,1930.

Nineteen year old Ralph Fults met Clyde Barrow in the back of a "one-way wagon", the name given to prison buses in Texas under Bud Russell.

Ralph Fults had previously escaped and was retaliated against by guards.

Ralph Fults helped smuggle hacksaw blades to bank robber Ray Hamilton to escape from jail in McKinney, Texas on January 27,1932.

Ralph Fults was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on May 11,1932.

Ralph Fults was granted a pardon by Governor Miriam A Ferguson shortly before she left office, on January 10,1935.

Ralph Fults rejoined Hamilton less than a month later and the pair stole eight Browning BARs from a National Guard armory in Beaumont, Texas.

Ralph Fults was returned to Huntsville prison until his extradition to Mississippi to face bank robbery charges.

Ralph Fults was put in solitary confinement for leading a prison strike.

Ralph Fults was pardoned in 1944 and assumed a legitimate profession as a security guard at an orphanage.

Ralph Fults converted to Christianity and spoke to the children about the evils of a life of crime.

In 1960, Ralph Fults helped create a local television program called Confession.

Ralph Fults died in Dallas on March 16,1993, at the age of 82.