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MSS BRADLEY IS CHARGEDHABEAS CORPUS REFUSED BUT BOND IS ALLOWED£2,000 IS LOOT TAKEN“GIRL REPORTER” INTERVIEWS BUDA BANKERS THEN LOOTS BANK(By Associated Press) AUSTIN, Dec. 11.—When state prosecutors declared charges against her had been filed in connection'with the Ruda bank robbery, application for writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Miss Rebecca Bradley, university graduate and stenographer in the office of Governor-elect Dan Moody, was dle-missed late tonight by district judge J. R. Hamilton before a crowded co'urt' room. /Miss Bradley was arrested scyerai hours earlier by officers searching for the '‘flapper bandit who looted the Farmers National bank of Buda of nearly $2,000 Saturday afternoon after forcing two men into a vault.Habeas corpus hearing brought by Miss Bradley's mother, Mrs. Ora.ce E. Bradley, were heard at a district court session held shortly before Saturday midnight. Texas university students who knew the accused girl wore in theSAN ANTONIO, Tex.. Dec. 11.MB —Attorney General Dan Moody had little to say tonight concerning the arrest of Miss Rebecca Bradley, stenographer in his office In Ausl tin, bn robbery charges. j*■ Moody said that Miss BradleV had been recommended by a friend after she bad applied for work andj; that he had told his office manager to give her a position if she wa4 competent, as there happened to be a vacancy in the office at the time. He said that he bad seen very little of her. but that she had always seemed to be very efficient.crowd that packed the court room-Refuses Release Judge Hamilton declared that he would net allow Miss Hamilton's release after District Attorney J. D. Moore declared that a. ohtWRo of robbery has been filer! against her in Hys county.As soon i.-.r Mrs. Bradley heard of the arrest of her daughter, she had an attorney apply for a Writ of habeas corpus, alleging that her daughter w»s being illegally restrained.Judge Hamilton made the writ returnable In district court here art 11 l. m. tonight, ordering the sheriff and other arresting officers to bring Miss Bradley into court.Taken to San Marcos Before this order could be served, however, Chief of Police Llttlepage, Sheriff W. G. Miiler .vnd Ranger Frank Hamer with the girl a prisoner, were on their way to Son Marcos, south of here, seat of the county In which til® robbery occurred. ■ iWhen Jv$;e Humllton convened hie court at 11:45 tonight, the district attorney Informed him that format charges of robbery had been filed against the girl in San Marcos and thii-t she was being held there and could not be brought wlthtrihta . jurisdiction. The judge thereupon dismissed the habeas corpus hearing.Bond Granted At his home soon wCter the habeas corpus hearing, Judge O. S. Luttlmere of the court of criminal appeals, granted 15,000 bail to Miss Bradley.The bond was made returnwble to Judge George CaHioun of the 6$rd -dil-v; tricst court here. If Calhoun approved'’ the signatures on .the bond,, the 21 year old stenographer likely • will W released from the Hays county ijsrtl at San Marcos herore daybreak Sunday. Bund tor Miss Bradley‘fcwetoaae erpaSee BUDA ROBBCftY, f««e *.... ...fc4v,r - ~
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Lubbock Sunday Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Sun, Dec 12, 1926
Page 15
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