LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1932, Page 7

LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING

SUICIDE IN MORROW HOME

QUESTIONING OF WAITRESS

INTEREST IN PHOTOGRAPH

CONNECTION WITH RANSOM

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Rec. 5.5 p.m. New York, June 10. Violet Sharp, a waitress in the home of Mrs. Dwight Morrow, mother of Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, committed suicide-to-day by taking poison at Englewood, New Jersey. Colonel H. N. Schwartzkopf, who conducted the search for the kidnapped Lindbergh baby, 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 the Lindbergh baby.” The girl had been repeatedly questioned. She was the only servant, accord! tug to the police, who could not give a satisfactory account of her movements on the night of tl v crime. She was to have been questioned again today. Ernest Brinkert, an ex-convict friend of Violet Sharpe, was arrested on Friday night. Before her death the girl pointed out to the police a picture of Brinkert as the man with whom she conversed by telephone on the afternoon of the kidnapping and who eventually went out with her that night. A White Plains message states that John F. Congdon, Colonel Lindbergh’s intermediary, was quoted by the police to-night as saying that the picture of Brinkert was that of the man to whom he paid £lO,OOO ransom in a New York city cemetery on April 2. The girl Sharpe is a native of Bradford, England. A later message states that the entire police theory which sought to link Violet Sharpe and Brinkert with the kidnapping, apparently collapsed when Ernest Miller, of Gloster, New Jersey, 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.