Texas Typist

Attorney General and Governor-elect Dan Moody of Texas employs several stenographers in his office. Last Saturday he noticed that a pretty one, Rebecca Bradley, aged 22, had been missing two days. He ordered an inquiry. Later in the day the village of Buda, near Austin, was agog. A pretty girl, after hanging around the Farmers' National Bank all morning, had whipped out an automatic pistol, backed the cashier and bookkeeper into the vault, grabbed $1,000 in bills and fled in her waiting coupe. That night, on identification of the bank employes, the Buda sheriff had Governor-elect Dan Moody's stenographer in custody. Public opinion was more perplexed than outraged. At the University of Texas, where she was earning an M. A. despite her full-time hours in Mr. Moody's office, Rebecca Bradley was called "serious-minded." Instead of "flapper bandit," Texans were saying, "an aberration." Robbery with firearms is a capital crime in Texas. But Governors can pardon anything.