Evening star., 1926-12-12

Continued from F1rSL rage N,
A revolver was used by the girl
who held up the bank.
Calmly the girl walked into the
bank, posed as IL newspaper woman
and borrowed>a typewriter in the rear
of the building. When all but two
employees had left for lunch, the girl,
of about II. whipped out a revolver
from coat pocket and robbed the
institution. After locking cashier S.
A. Jamison and Raymond Howe,
bookkeeper. in the vault. the flapper
bandit escaped in her coupe.
Buda officers said the girl got away
with between 1920 and $2.400.
The woman was described as a
slender brunette, weighing from 110
to 115 pounds. quietly dressed and
not over Is to 1S years old. She
appeared at the bank an hour before
the robbery and told officials she
had been sent to write an article
about the town of Buda, which has
a population of about 900. She
chatted with half a dozen or more
visitors and waited until all customers
had left at noon. Jamison and Howe
were preparing to go to lunch When
she suddenly drew a gun from her
coat and commanded: Stand where
you are"'
Jamison was just coming out or
the vault. Howe was in his cage at
the bookkeeper's window.
Move over closer to him. she
commanded Howe. He obeyed Ihe
woman then ordered both men into
the vault.
she told Jamison to unlock the
Ene
commanded, her gun leveled at Jami'
cons head. with Howe also i'll front
of it's muzzle.
Jamison handed out two packages
of currency. each containing $1,000.
Another he dropped to the moor
without the girl seeing it.
She then slammed and locked the
vault door, leaving the men INSIDE:
Persons on the street, who had
not susuected the robbery, said they
saw her calmly enter her coupe ailo
drive away on the post road toWaru
Austin.
With a screwdriver Jamlson ana
Howe succeeded in opening the Vauit
door from the inside within 1O MN
utes and Immediately telephoned
officers at Austin and other towns
Miss Bradley was arrested alter ON
GERS had checked the license NUMBER
nm her car. The car was found on
wc<,h rack at q garage here, and sne
was taken into custody wnen sne
called for 1t tonight.
Frank Hill, a dairyman, 1dentlneu
Miss Bradley as the girl whose auto
mobile he pulled out Of the mud on
a lonely road back of his home,
miles south of here. this afternoon
after the robbery. ~,
He said she stuck a bill In ms
pocket, but he returned 1t. He related
that he gave her a fatherly lecture
when she called her mother at Aus
tin on the telephone. and told ner sne
was stuck in the mud, but gave ner
location as on an Austin street. Hlii
made her telephone again to let MRS.
Bradley know where she was.
"Why, it's ridiculous to think they
are holding my little slip OF girl
for bank robbery" Mrs. Bradley tolo
the Associated Press. "They have
kept her from me. but at the haoeas
corpus proceedings I'll find where she
is and go to her, no matter where
she may be-"
Mrs. Bradley talked calmly about
her daughter, until George Rowley, an
old friend Of her family, called. and
momentarily her voice broke as she
cntreated, "Oh, George, what have
thew done with my Becker"
Mrs, Bradley said her daughter took
her to work at o'clock this morning.
"Rebecca didn't work today at the
Attorney Generals office, because she
has been feeling badly the past few
days. NV daughter brought me home
about 3.3O o'clock this afternoon, and