POISON TAKEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 137, 11 June 1932, Page 9

POISON TAKEN.

DEATH OF WAITRESS

LINDBERGH BABY CASE

" Act Tends to Confirm Police

Suspicions."

HAD BEEN QUESTIONED

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copj-rijili!)

(Received 1 p.m.)

NEW YORK, June 10.

Violet Sharp, a waitress in the home of Mrs. Dwight Morrow, mother of Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, committed suicide on Friday by taking poison.

Colonel Schwartzkopf, in a statement to-day, said: "The suicide of the girl strongly tends to confirm the suspicions of the investigating authorities concerning her guilty knowledge of the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby."

The girl had been repeatedly questioned, and ehc was the only servant, according to the police, who could not give a satisfactory account of her movements on the night of the crime. She was to have been questioned again on Friday.

The 19-month-old Lindbergh baby was taken from his crib on the upper floor of the spacious Lindbergh home in New Jersey between 7.30 and 10 p.m. on the night of March 1. Almost ten weeks later the child's dead body, with the head battered in with some oharp instrument, was found comparatively close to the scene of the crime.

After an exhaustive search Henry Johnson, a friend of the nursemaid, Betty Gow, was arrested as a suspect, but was later released, through insufficiency of evidence.

On April 9 it was stated that Colonel Lindbergh had paid £10,000 ransom, but that he had been hoaxed, an the child had not been taken to the appointed spot. Later, a Chicago society woman paid over £20,000 to another group of " negotiators," who immediately vanished.