Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-13
Texas Girl Faces
Charge of Hold-Up
In Austin Court Today

Austin, Tex. Dec. 12.--(PD-Charged
with the single-handed robbery Satur-
day Of the Farmers National Bank at
Buda, small town near here, Miss
Rebecca Bradley. 22-year-old Austin
girl, was released from the Hays coun-
ty Jail at San Marcos on $4,000 bond
early this morning. Tonight she is at
home with her widowed mother In
Austin and Is to appear at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning before Judge
George Calhoun OF the 53rd district
court of Travis county, Austin.
Miss Bradley declined to talk to
newspapermen when taken from Jail
She said to an Associated Press corre-
spondent, first to greet her, Il can
not. have not and will not talk with
any newspaperman. I wish to speak
with my mother first"
Miss Bradley, graduate Of Texas
University, is a stenographer in the
Office of Dan Moody. state attorney
general and governor-elect of Texas.
Her actions Saturday, as charged by
authorities, we're spectacular. ranging.
authorities claim, from Round Rock, a
village 20 miles north of Austin. to
Buda, Is miles south, where a slip of
a girl, posing as a newspaper woman,
held up f. A. Jameson. cashier, and
Raymond Howe, bookkeeper. Of the
Farmers National Bank, and escaped
with $1,000.
She was taken into custody here last
night by Sheriff George Allen of
Hayes county. in which Buda is locat-
ed. Sheriff Allen today sketched the
alleged activities of Miss Bradley.
She told him the story. last night,
he said, as he was taking her by auto
mobile from Austin to San Marcos.
county seat of Hayes county.
"She went to sRound Rock Saturday
morning in a flivver," Allen said. "As
she had been there several times re-
Gently, Tom Nelson, president of the
Farmers State Bank, took the num-
Der of her automobile. She left there
and passed through Austin, going on
to Buda.
an Buda she went to the bank and,
posing as a newspaper woman, got be-
hind the cage on the pretext Of bor-
rowing a typewriter. Then. at the
point of pistol, she held up the
cashier and bookkeeper. She took
$1,000 in five-dollar bills and locked
the two men in the vault, expressing
the hope that they could get enough
fresh air. and took the back road to
Austin.
Preaching Austin she put her car on
a wash rack. She was with her mother
about 9 o'clock for a short time. Some
time during the afternoon she wrap
ped up 1910 of the money. the .32-
calibre automatic pistol, and mailed
the package to herself at Austin in
care of University Station.
at $40 o'clock she returned to the
wash rack and was arrested, taken to
the police station and docketed.
Miss Bradley had no idea she was
! traced until she went for her machine
at the wash rack. She was identified
at the police station by the victims
Of the robbery, Jameson and Howe.
She then was placed in my custody.
"On the way to San Marcos she told
me the story. She said she had no
| tears to She'd that she has a lot to
| live down. but not as much as those
saps in the bank who let bit OF a
| girl get away like that"
| John Coffrer, youthful Austin law
| yer engaged as Miss Bradley's attor-
| ney last night, took immediate steps
| for the release of his client, but it
| was not until O'Clock this morning
| that legal entanglements were sur
mounted and the young woman freed
! on bond. She had been in jail since 9
! o'clock last night.