Waitress" Commits Suicide

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 June 1932, Page 3

Waitress" Commits Suicide

NEW SENSATION IN LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING. UNDER THIRD DEGREE PRESSURE NEW YORK, June 10. ' A message from Englewood, New Jersey, states that Violet Sharp, waitress in the home of Mrs. Dwight Morrow (mother of Mrs. Lindbergh), committed suicide to-day by taking poison. Colonel Schwartzkopf, in a statement said: “The suicide of the girl confirms the suspicion of the authorities who were conducting the investigation concerning her guilty knowledge of the kidnapping of Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh’s baby.’’ The girl had been repeatedly questioned. She was the only servant, according to the police, who could not give a, satisfactory account of herself on the night- of the crime. She was to have been questioned again to-day. Arrest of Suspect DID HE GET THE 50,000 DOLLARS*? Received Sunday, 5.5 pan. NEW YORK, June 11. A Mamaroneck message states that Ernest Brinkert, ex-convxct and friend of Violet Sharpe, the waitress in the Morrow home who suicided, was arrested on Friday night here. Before her. death Miss Sharpe pointed out to the police the picture of Brinkert as the man who conversed over the telephone on the afternoon of the kidnapping and ■whom she eventually went out with that night. A White Plains message states that John F. Congdon, Lindbergh’s intermediary, was quoted by the police tonight as saying that the picture of Brinkert was that of the man to whom he paid 50,000 dollars’ ransom in the New York city cemetery on April 2. Miss Sharpe was a native of Bradfield (England). A message from Englewood (New Jersey) stated that Congdon was confronted by Brinkert early on Saturday, but was uncertain whether Brinkert was the man to whom he paid the ransom. He said he cannot be certain one way or the other just now. Another Theory Collapses Received Sunday, 10.50 p.m. NEW YORK, June 11. The entire police theory which sought to link Violet Sharpe and Ernest Brinkert with the Lindbergh kidnapping apparently collapsed on Saturday, when Ernest Miller, of Gloster, came to police headquarters and seemingly satisfied the authorities that he, and not Brinkert, was Miss Sharpe’s companion on the night, of March 1. Brinkert, however, remained closeted with the authorities for the time being.