LINDBERGH CASE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1932, Page 5

LINDBERGH CASE

ECHO TO KIDNAP SUICIDE OF WAITRESS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, June 10. yA.-‘message from Englewood (New Jersey) .states that Violet Sharp, la' waitress in the home of ?r Mrs Dwight' Morrow, committed suicide to-day by' taking prison. ' Colonel Schw'artzkopf,-- ’Chief of fiSe State Police, in a statement said; — ‘The suicide tO’f 'the girP- confirm*/ •the' suspicions of the authorities, who Were conducting, £;he i'hvevt.fgiiFon eoiicornfing her guiVty 'knowledge of the kid-’ napping of the Lindbergh baby.” The girl had been repeatedly questioned, and was the only servant, according to the police, who could r.n J give a satisfactory account of herself; o:i the nigTat of the crime. She was to have been, questioned again today. • Ernest Brinkert, an ex-convict, and ,a friend of Violet Sharpe, was arrested on Friday night at Mamaroneck, Before her death the girl Sharpe had pointed out to the police the picture of ji tinkert as that of the man whom -■ u . conversed with over the telephone : .On the ‘afternoon of the kidnapping,. -am w'hnm she eventually went out' -with ( that night. • ,

IDENTITY OF EX-CONVICT: ■ . r •• - MAN WHO' RECEIVED RANSOM.? ;'Y : NEW”YORK, June 11. A message, from Wh-t-e Plains states; John F. Congdon, Lindbergh,'s intermediary, was quoted by the police tonight as saying that the picture' of Brinkert % that of the man to whom he paid 'fifty thousand dollars ransom at the New York cemetery on April 2nd':

The girl Sharpe was a native of “Bradfield, in England. A message from Englewood, New •Jersey, states that Oorigdon was confronted with Brinkert early on Saturday, but he was not certain if Brinkert was tlhe man to whom he paid the' ‘ransom. He said that he cannot be 'certain one way or the other just now.

POLICE THEORY COLLAPSES

NEW YORK, June 11

An Alpinena message states : The entire police theory which sought to link Violet Sharp 6 and Ernest Brinkert with the Lindbergh kidnapping apparently collapsed on Saturday when Ernest Miiller, -of Cluster J., came to the police headquarters there and seemingly satisfied the authorities that he, and not Brinkert. was. Miss Slwi’Pe'e companion of Mbvch Ist. Briiikert, frßwaver, : ww malned clogeted with the authorities for the time being, .