LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 152, 13 June 1932, Page 8

LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING

RECEIVE ROE THE RANSOM. A SUSPECT DEMINED. New York, June 11. A Mamaroneck message states that Ernest Brinkert, ex-convict and friend of Violet Sharpe, a waitress at the Morrow home, who committed suicide, was arrested on Friday night. Before death Miss Sharpe pointed out to the police a picture of Brmkert as the man who conversed on the telephone on the afternoon of the kidnapping and who eventually went out with her that night.

A White Plains message states that Mr John F. Congdon, Colonel Lindoergh’s intermediary, was quoted by the police to-night as saying on being shown a picture of Brmkert that he was the man to whom he paid the 50,000 dollars ransom in a New York city cemetery on April 2. Miss Sharpe is a native of Bradfield, England. A message from Englewood, New' Jersey, states that Mr Congdon was confronted by Brmkert early on Saturday, but was uncertain that Brinkert

was the man to whom he paid the ransome. He said he could not be certain one way or the other just now. POLICE THEORY COLLAPSES Alpinena, June 11. The entire police theory which sought to Jink Violet Sharpe and Ernest Brinkert with the Lindbergh kidnapping apparently collapsed on Saturday when Ernest Miller, of Closter, came to the police headquarters and seemingly satisfied the authorities that he, and not Brinkert, was Miss Sharpe's companion on the night of March J Brinkert, however, remained closeted with the authorities for the time being.