LINDBERGH BABY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1932, Page 7

LINDBERGH BABY.

Friend of Dead Housemaid

Arrested.

POLICE PUZZLED,

NEW YORK, June 18.

A further development in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder caea is last night's arrest of Ernest Brinkert, a friend of Violet Sharpe, the housemaid who committed suicide on Friday.

Before her death Miss Sharpe pointed out to the police a photograph of Brinkert as the man with whom she conversed on the telephone on tli9 afternoon of the kidnapping, and with whom she went out that night.

Dr. John F. Condon, who was Colonel Lindbergh's intermediary, was confronted with Brinkert, but he wae uncertain whether Brinkert was the man to whom ho had paid a ransom of £10,000 in New York City cemetery on April 2. "I cannot be certain one way or the other just now," he said.

However, the police theory which sought to link Violet Sharpo and Ernest Brinkert with the Lindbergh baby kidnapping apparently collapsed when Ernest Miller, of Closter, came to the police headquarters and apparently satisfied the authorities that he, and not Brinkert, was Miss Sharpe'e companion on the night of tha crime.

Brinkert, however, is remaining in custody for the time being. .