Rebecca Bradley

Rebecca Bradley (born c. 1905, died 1950), also known as the Texas "Flapper Bandit", was an American bank robber whose crime was widely covered in the press.

Life Bradley was born in Texarkana, Arkansas around 1905.

In 1926, Bradley was studying towards a degree in American history at the University of Texas at Austin, whilst working as an assistant to a university professor Charles Ramsdell who handled the business and financial affairs for the Texas State Historical Association. She also served as the vice president of her local chapter of the Present Day Club, which was a women's organisation dedicated to reducing crime and supporting prohibition. She drove her own car.

After failing in an attempted robbery of the Farmers’ State Bank in Round Rock, She pulled a gun on the bank employees, locked two male bank employees in the safe and stole $2,000. The sheriff later claimed that she laughed about her arrest and said: "I have a whole lot to live down, but not as much as those men back there who let a little girl hold them up with an empty gun."