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WTSFimwr BUSTATO -'-WING NEWS: W-'T' 13 1932 IK OF ID Fellow Servants Say Violet Hysterical Prior to Suicide LADDER IS TRACED Kidnaping Aid Like Ons Stolen from Brinkert's Boss I Under Surveillance After Failing 1 to Tell of Movements Night of Kidnaping watched for weeks past and she virtually has been a prisoner Yearning for Far Away Hills Brings Death to' English Girl ENGLEWOOD June 11 The yearning for green hills far away brought Violet Sharpe from the placid English farmlands to sudden suicide In one of hurly-burly mast sen' sstkmal mysteries Only a few years ago Violet wu an English "outdoor sally chugging on a motorbir- over the moors and hills of her native land A chestnut-halted shy girl of boyish demeanor no one would have predicted for her the fate that overtook her In Englewood Friday Her picture tefephoted throughout the lend shows a smiling happy girl clad In knickers and sports Jacket leaning against tha motorbike in which she delighted Persona who knew her sold her eyes had a violet tinge Perhaps they gave her her name She waa bun In Tulls Clump Brad field seven mile west of Reading wngiwi in 1104 and cams to the United States through Canada about two and a half years ago Lika so many English girls au employment agency was her sesame' to tha opportunities of America She registered at ons in New York declaring aha had served Viscountess FalweU In London A woman for whom she had worked In Toronto Can described her a sober obliging and competent' and oho got her WS-a-month post as waitress In the Morrow home MAMARONECK June II OT-Capt Edward Decker of the Mamaroneck town poiiee Saturday afternoon uid i True Aim of Learning Largely Claude Moody real estate man of Rouken Glen declared ha suspects tha LOSl Father MertZ TellS Udder used to enter Charles A Lindbergh JrTi nursery window on March 1 wu stolen from tha Moody grounds Er -at Brlnkert latest suspect in the kidnaping and murder ease gave up hta Job as butler at tha Moody home on March 1 Moody told Decker Saturday ha hut saw tha ladder in February It wu used to prune fruit trees It resembled the ladder found on the ground outside tha Lindbergh Bourhmd mountain home In that tha rungs wen far apart It wu wider at bottom than at tha top and It wu made of fir Capt Decker led the mazy trail of Brlnkert to Moody The police officer uw picture of the auspeet In a newspaper Saturday and recognized Brlnkert a former butler at tha Moody home Ha went to Moody and showed him tha picture As tha two discussed the caw comparing clues and coincidences Moody suddenly thought of tha ladder He and Capt Decker went to look for It The ladder wu missing from its accustomed place and could not be found anywhere "Wa arc suffering today becauu wa have given up tha principles of true education which must always hero mottoes to science and to truth study the tha Rev James Merts 8 head of tha English department in Loyola university Chicago told tha Cantata! college graduating class in his baccalaureate sermon In St Vincent da Paul church Main street and Eutwuod placa Saturday Hta sermon charged tha people have bean witnessing tha evil affects at wrong philosophy of life and that tha present muddled condition in tha nations and governments and In individuals la nothing mors than tha result of applies lion of wrong principles la ths very essential foundation of national and individual wall being "Too many of our atata schools and privately endowed Institutions of learning have given up tha heritage toft by Christ who alone ran give tha proper Never Question Me Youthful Waitress Told Others in Morrow Household Before Ending Life ENGLEWOOD June 11 town this bouse again Tteyll never question me again1 Thla hysterical exclamation wu attributed to Violet Sharpe youthful waitress by fellow servants who talked with her several hours before her aulelde In the home of Mn Dwight Morrow Friday Tho English girl wu questioned four times before she finally Identified a picture id Ernest Brinkert 30-year-old rab driver with a criminal record tha man with whom she went riding mysteriously on the night the son ol Col Charles A Lindbergh wu kidnaped She wu In her room on tha second floor when Inspector Harry Walsh of Jersey City and hta mm arrived to take her to the state polire station at Alpine for renewed quizzing Mrs secretary told the maid to get ready Blanching she ran to the butler and exclaimed: "Walsh wants to question me but Then aha slipped Into the pantry sailed a water glau and ran to her room There ahe poured poison crystals Into water and drained tha glass She staggered beck down the atalrs to the butler's pantry collapsed on the floor and died almost Immediately without utt1ni a word Emily Kem-palrlen another maid found her there a huddled mass id starched liner and ran screaming to summon other servants OoL Lindbergh wu ons of the first to reach the pantry Police iwlftly seewhrd the room for a nots throwing light on her act hut found none The ran of poison half spilled on the floor wu found in a closet The body ns taken to an Englewood morgue where Dr Raphael 11 lady Bergen county physician performed an autopsy and pronounced the maid a suicide No plans for disposition of the body were disclosed pedal to tha Burr no Crums Xrw ENGLEWOOD Jus Vio-tot Sharoe tha waitress In the Iforrow 'home whou auldde Friday caused the arrest' of Ernest Brlnkeit as a auspeet In the kidnaping and murder of the infant son of CdL Charles A Lind tergh had been under surveillance since March 13 because of her failure to account satisfactorily for her movements on the night of March 1 the night of the kidnaping and her refusal to name the companions with whom she told police she was out riding All of the other servants were frank In their accounts of what they were doing but Violet was sullen and uncommunicative Time and again she was questioned hut she held out stubbornly Once she pleaded a severe case of ton llltls and the police let her alone When the babyto body was found she was In a hospital Nest time she was questioned there was a change In her manner She was nervoua as well as sullen On Thursday she finally Identified a picture of Brlnkert as her associate on the night of March 1 His name had been found among her posseaslona and his picture had been tracked down in a gallery Admitted Phene Call She also admitted that he telephoned to her at 1 on March 1 At that time she had knowledge that the Lindberghs Intended to- remain over In Hopewell that night Instead of returning to Englewood as was their custom Mn Lindbergh's telephone call asking that Betty Oow be sent over to look after the baby reached the Morrow home before noon One of the mystifying features of tha crime was the apparent foreknowledge the kidnapers had of the Lindberghs knowledge which was available only to members of the two households Violet was in such a nervous condition after Identifying the photograph of Brlnkert that It was decided to abandon the Interrogation for the time being and resume It again with a physician in attendance Friday morning Charles Springer secretary to tha late Senator Dwight Morrow was asked by the police to tell Violet to prepare herself for further questioning She went to her room taking a glass with her from the butler's pantry She poured poison Into the glass and drank it down 1 Dropped Dead in Pantry Then she walked calmly downstairs from her bedroom to the pantry and dropped dead almost as soon as she crossed the threshold A maid discovered her Violet was 99 years old She entered the employ of Mrs Morrow about two years ago through the recommendation of a Mew York employment agency She had first come to Canada from England and had then sought work fa the United States Her sister Emily had been at the home of Miss Constance Chilton in Englewood for some time prior to the kidnaping For a time she LINDY CASE SUSPECT TELLS STORY TO POLICE $1 Th Mother Sure Violet Sharpe Guilt less in Kidnaping Sister Summoned Home READING Eng June 11 The parents of Violet Sharpe who com' milled suicide In Englewood J- Friday were shocked end mystified Saturday when news of the tragedy reached them The Sharpes live In a little coUags to a village near Reading George Sharpe father went about hta buttnem of delivering coal Saturday The dead girl's mother wu In a state bordering on collapse When a United Preu correspondent called on her ahe sobbed and wrung her hands sure poor Violet knew nothing about the matter" the mother said referring to the feet her daughter had been under suspicion In the Lindbergh kidnaping never mentioned any boy friends In any of her letters "She wu one of the nicest girls you could meet anywhere end ahe would have given me her lut shilling if needed Mrs Sharpe disclosed she had received a letter from Violet Tuesday "They are still looking for those guys who killed that poor little the tetter uld "Mrs Lindbergh to expecting another In August so I hops they look after It stater Emily who vent to America with her thru yqars ago and returned In April tor a visit with her parents wu at the home of a married slater In Bourbridge Worcestershire and refused to see callers Her father sent for her to return to the family it once At Bourbridge Emily secluded herself and a member of the household where ahe la visiting said no one will be permitted to see her or talk to her since he deeply distressed at her sister's death Emily planned to sail soon for America Whether she will change those plena could not be kerned Saturday Violet Driven Mad by Police Sister Emily Sharpe Avers STOURBRIDGE Eng June 11 (UP) Emily Sharpe sister of Violet Sharpe who committed suicide Friday In New Jersey said Saturday her lister "swore to me that she knew nothing about the disappearance of the Lindbergh Miss Sharpe visiting a married lister here told reporters Violet admitted she wu suspected of complicity In tha kidnaping because she Informed them she had been out the night of the crime with two boys whose names aha know "After the baby wu stolen" Emily uld "Violet wrote me and went to Englewood to ice her She wu terribly distressed and uld the police bad been questioning her for Emily declared she personally knew toothing of tha kidnaping and that she la positive Violet wu equally Innocent since tha baby disappeared" Emily uld "aha had been badgered and questioned by police until ahe didn't know whet ahe wu saying or doing" "Bhe told me that on the yilght the child was kidnaped she went out automobile riding with two men whose names she didn't know Bhe aeld she had not seen tha two men since" Asked why she returned to England so soon after the kidnaping Emily aald: "I came for a vacation and Intended to fretum in The New Jersey pollee Emily declared "drove Violet mad because they doubted her statement that ahe knew nothing of the ease But they never believe anything you tell them In Emily Sharpt Asked Permit to Leave Day of Kidnaping WASHINGTON June 11 Immigration records show that Emily Sharpe sister of the meld who committed suicide in the Morrow home Friday applied for permission to leave the country the dsy tha Lindbergh baby wee stolen The records show that she wu quota alien end ss such had to hsvs permission to leave this country Records show she proposed to ssll March IS but Immigration authorities are rechecking this with port authorities in New York The Immigration bureau has no reo-ord of Emily's (liter who killed herself GAMING DEVICES BRING FIXES I Pleading guilty to a reduced charge possessing gambling equipment Angelo Loffredo 31 of 113 15th street wu fined 9100 fat City court Saturday by Judge Clifford Chlpman Police Informed the court Loffredo wu a second offender On a similar charge Judge Chlpman fined Charles Patomaa-fro 31" of 331 South Division street $35 when he pleaded guilty BRINKERT ORPHAN GOOD BOY FARMER ASSERTS HONESDALE Fa June II UP)r-Ernest Brlnkert arrested at New Rochelle In the Lindbergh kidnaping hunl formerly lived at Pleasant Mount a firming region near here Thomas Brennan now of Hones-dale took Brlnkert when a boy from an orphanage In New York state When he wu about II yean old Brlnkert decided to quit the term and go to New York -The Brennan family described Brlnkert a "very good while he was with them Progress: No 10 Flag Roche Says It Will Go Through Regular Channels District Attorney Explains Judge Robert Summers will decide in City court Monday whether District Attorney Waller Newcomb violated the traffle taw Thursday evening when ha received a summons from Patrolman George Simpson charging tha county prosecutor with "double parking" While Police Cummis loner Austin Rocha announced Saturday ha had Investigated and found no unusual circumstances in the esse and that it would proceed through regular channels Mr Newcomb offered an explanation of the Incident was proceeding east In Grnaaee street brtween Pearl and Main streets" Mr Newromb uld "Parked can lined the curb lor the distance of the entire block on my right When I reached a point In front of the store of Weed Co uw a motnrryela parked diagonally In front of me "There were two of traffic traveling In the opposite direction and the motorcycle prevented ms from going head I waited a few minutes when uw that the motorcycle patrolman was talking to the driver of machine ahead I had my 14-year-old aon with ma and as I had to plrk up a parcel In the Weed store I slipped out got my parcel and returned to ths ear I waa gona only a matter of seconds "When got Into tho ear tha motorcycle patrolman wu Just mounting hta machine He circled around came bark and handed me a summons for double parking If that constitutes double parking I am willing to taka tha consequences" Simpson tha district attorney uld wu "offteloui" and remarked "If ever catch you speeding throw you In Jail" Commissioner Roche uld ha called in Capl Daniel Regan In charge of the motorcycle patrolmen and Simpson Friday afternoon to learn their report the matter Roche uld he was utta-fled with ths statement made by the patrolmen WORKED IN TORONTO Violet Sharps Innocent Former Employer Thinks TORONTO OnL June 11 Belief that Violet Sharpe maid In the Morrow household who committed suicide Friday had no connection with tha Lindbergh baby kidnaping and murder wu expressed Saturday by tha dead girl's former employer "I don't believe that Violet had anything to do with tha Lindbergh ease" Mrs John Jennings who recommended Violet to tha Morrow family uld "She wu always trustworthy and competent and I believe her only the victim of circumstance "Violet came to me direct from England where aba worked for nobility She wu tho finest servant I aver had" From other sources It wu learned that Edna Sharpe the dead girl's stater wu employed at the home of Percy Mllnrs hero before leaving for the United Slates several months ago "She wu employed a cook wu competent and responsible and wa were sorry to see her go" Mrs Mllnrs told tho United Preu "She explained that her stater worked in tha United Statu and that aha had bun promised Job at Englewood near her staler "Wa understood that aha had bun on the immigration quota list for some time and finally had been permitted entrance into the United Mllnea uld ha understood Edna wu to taka a position with tha ume family when Violet wu employed He believed that tha positions were to be with "two spinsters at Englewood MRS MORROW SURE MAID WAS INNOCENT ENGLEWOOD June It UJU nervoua Violet Sharpe dining room girl In tho Morrow home was simply frightened to death" Mrs Dwight Morrow told friends after the girl had killed herself by drinking poison She dtaagreed with tha police version that tha servant girl who failed to answer uttafsctorlly all their qur Uona had "guilty knowledge" of tha kidnaping and murder of Charles A Lindbergh Jr Mrs Morrow's curly' haired blue-eyed grandson "Violet wu absolutely devoted to tha baby Sha drum of allowing harm to coma to friend of the family uld "She wu always nervous and citable Only a month ago aha went to the hospital for an operation on her tonsils and she waa still weakened from that" tha family friend uld And In contrast were the words at Detective Harry Walsh investigating the kidnaping: "Someone had to tip off the kid-hapen and wa are assuming that Violet Sharpe was that party" SUICIDE VERDICT ISSUED IN NEWCOMER DEATH A certificate of death fay suicide wu toued Saturday by Medical Examiner Francis Kujawa who Investigated ths fatal shooting Thursday night of Howard Newcomer 39 of 533 Hlgh-gate avenue cashier of the Aluminum company 1980 Elmwood avenue Dr Kujawa added to hta verdict of suicide that death resulted from a bullet in tha head and that ths motive la undetermined Funeral services for Newcomer will ha conducted at 3:30 Monday from the residence direction and tha-proper Idrata" ha uld Dean Ones Open to Truth "Thera wu time when tha doors of our schools wen opened to tha acquisition of truth "Today they are too often hotbeds of treason and of treason to tho atata and to God Is a hard statement to make but whan you atop to think that people are paying taxes so that out of tho halls of our universities and colleges tetter citizenship may te given to the country to direct the policies of politics and of government it la an set of treason to the state and to God when professors are allowed to teach that The decalogue la no mart than a sacred syllabus that tho home an Institution la doomed that then are no absolute arils that Immorality la simply an act of contradiction to society's standards that moral precepts are patting shibboleths that the conception of right and wrong la unstable as the style of dress Last Stand of Aathorlty i "When you knock tha Idea of God out of the heads of your scholars you are removing the last aland at all authority and that la undermining and that la treason "Tha atmosphere of Intellectual pride and skepticism and intellectual radicalism which envelopes tha student will dissipate hta faith In Christianity and In tha supernatural "Under the amoka screen of selenea or literature of philosophy or psychology tha teacher can advance propositions which will appeal to tha youths who la their Impressionistic yean are unabla to Judge their professors who are often set up as golden calves or calves without tha gilding and any proposition without a proof la accepted as true because It la new and because it to written up by pres which looks to novelty In order to foist It upon an unthinking and tong-suffering public "We have given up Christ the way nd tha truth and tha in tha home and In tha schools and In our social order Causa Working Its Effect "Tha attitude of cynicism of fa-religion of bigotry tha revolt against tha sanctity of the home and tha holiness of matrimony the critical spirit of youth and tha frivolous and irrevereip tial attitudes of thought and expression In so many of our books and magastaes and news articles the unholy not to say blasphemous position of so many teachers of youth of tho land the breakup of tho social and economical art nothing mora than the cause working its effect "Back to Christ we must The seniors with the alumni faculty marched In proeeaslon from the college to the church The seniors were attired in academic gown the alumni In rap and gown Mass waa celebrated at 9 A tha Rev Joseph Buactelmana 8 of tha class of 07 of Eastman Wta! being the celebrant 131 to Gat Degrees He wu assisted by tha Rev Raymond Murray deacon and tha Rev Herbert Seymour as sub-deacon Both were graduated with tha claw of 35 Tha Rev' Daniel Harmon 39 wu master of ceremonies Patter Merta wu graduated from in 1904 Thta graduating claw numbers 139 and at tha 93d annual commencement exercises to te held In Elmwood Music hall Sunday at 3 degrees will be conferred by tha Rev Rudolph Elchhorn 8 president of tha col-toga Of the class 74 have taken the regu tor count and S3 extension work The commencement address will te fiven by Thomu Woodlock A LLJJ former editor of the Wall Street Journal and member of tho Interstate Commerce commission at noon Saturday tha faculty-alumni banquet honoring tha seniors wu given in tha college grille Brief addresses were given by Fatter Rich-horn and members of tha faculty Pleading guilty to po aiming gambling equipment- John Cutter 39 of 949 Alien street wu fined 35 Friday afternoon In City court by Judge Clifford Chlpman A fins of 939 also wu Imposed by Judge Chlpman on Alvin Sehleeter 30 of 31 Lord street accused of operating a car without a license In traffle court Judge Robert Bummers fined Ftorlan MMgrove 19 for reckless driving Trying to rateh ride on tha rear at a truck about 4 Friday in Keystone street at West Shore avenue Florence Zotaowaka 9 of 34 Sumner plaea caught ter middle right finger ta J0 prank Hiller 95 Keystone street wu driving tha truck owned by the Otis Bed company 173 Florida street -T Births in Buffalo exceeded deaths by 90 during tha week ending oatimuy at noon according to the weekly ate-ttatleal report tasued bp Health Commissioner Francis PToncak Births totaled 315 and deaths 139 John Penial 53 of 1379 East Dela-van avenue painter died In Sisters' hospltql Saturday ol Injuria suffered when ha fell about 35 feet white paint- tag tha rain conduits on a houw to 139 Minnesota avenue on Juna 3 Medical Examiner Or Char lea Lang who tamed a certificate of accidental death said Penrod's back wu broken Tha painter apparently had dlszy apaH Plana for the July 30 pirate to tha Automobile rlub In Clarence win be dtacuaaed by tha North Jafferaon Businessmen'! association Juna 31 to tha North Jefferson branch library But' UUea street near Jefferson avenue Centennial plans and arrangement for a three-day community sale commencing June 33 will be outlined by aub-commlt-teea President Clayton Learman will preaid Alibis Check Statement A vers Police Give Version of Questioning of Brlnkert and His Wife NEW ROCHELLE June 11 At the conclusion of nearly four hours of questioning when Smut Brlnkert wu locked up early Saturday Director of Public Safety James A Turley Issued the following statement: "Ernest Brlnkert wu arrested In New Roehelle at 10:45 last night by Detectives TDwey and Campbell at North and Sickles avenues "At tho he wu in the ear described in a general alarm sent out by New Jersey authorities requesting his apprehension to await action of the New Jersey authorities "Brlnkert wu questioned at police headquarters by Director pf Public Safety Turley In the presence of Inspector Harry Walsh Sergt Warren Moffat Lieut Keating Detective Horn and Core all of New Jersey and Detectives Campbell and Towey Sergt Blume and Chief of Police Frank Ber-mtatfham of New Rochelle and wen also present a representative of the United States Treasury department and Councilman Thomu A Manning Jr of New Roehelle "In addition to Brlnkert other witnesses 'were questioned Lieut Hughes and Detectives Turner and Sullo of White Plains brought Mrs Brlnkert to police headquarters "Bhe had left New Roehelle almost immediately after her husband bad been apprehended "Immediately at the outset of the questioning Brlnkert and his wife each stated they had an alibi When questioned separately their alibis did not cheek At the conclusion of tha examination Inspector Walsh requested that Brink-ert be held without ball pending action by tho New Jersey authorities "Upon Inspector Walsh'S return steps will be taken to bring about the Indictment of Brlnkert for the purpose of extradition due to the fact that hta picture was Identified by Violet Sharpe a waitress In the Morrow home before she died on June 10 1939" GIRL PEDDLER FORFEITS BAIL BROTHER IS HELD Arrested Friday In the Genesee building on a charge of peddling without a license Miss Esther McMillan IS of no permanent home failed to appear far City court for trial Saturday after gaining her release from the South Division street police station on 40 ball Judge Robert Summers ordered thei ball forfeited Occupants of the building who had noticed a warning In tha Buffalo Evening News called the Buffalo Better Business bureau when the girl offered "real Irish for sale Alfred Fuhrman merchandise manager of the bureau said the lace was made In this country A brother of the girl Alexander It wu arrested In an automobile near the Geneses building and turned over to Immigration authorities when he uld he wu a native of Canada POLICE DOUBT DETROIT MAN LINKED IN KIDNAPING DETROIT June 11 Samples of handwriting were taken Saturday from Robert Bums 90 who wu questioned Iqr Detroit and New Jersey officers a auspeet In the Lindbergh kidnaping and murder Thi officers Indicated after their questions of Bums who wu taken Into custody Friday night after an anonymous telephone call to police they did not believe he wu Involved in the ease The Informer had stated that ha wu a friend of Violet Sharpe servant In the home of Mrs Dwight-Morrow Bums denied knowledge of the ease and also uld he wu not acquainted with ttfiM Sharpe BANDIT TRIO TAKES $200 AFTER SLUGGING VICTIM Three masked and armed bandits held up Charles Sehroff 67 East Morris venue at 9:50 Friday at hta home garage escaping with $900 cash taken In a wallet from hta pocket Sehroff proprietor of a store at 959 Genesee street had Just driven home from the store with hta wife Louise Hta scalp wu cut by a blow from a ptatoL i Pollee suspect that the bandits were masked because they feared Sehroff might recognise them Buffalo Pageant of Maps Events For 3 -Day Session Expected PrtMbitlon Debate May Extend Convention One Day CHICAGO June 11 The official order of business for the Republican national convention announced Saturday provides for only three days of sessions beginning at It A (noon Huffalo' time) Tuesday and ending Thursday night Tha program for tha three days: Tuesday Convention railed to order at 11 AM by Simeon Feu of Ohio chairman of the National committee Prayer by the RL Rev James Freeman Episcopal btahnp of Washington Call for convention read by George Drbennevllle Kelm of New Jersey Temporary roll call Election of temporary chairman Addrru of temporary chairman Election of temporary officers Selection of committees on credentials permanent organisation rules and order of business and resolutions Miscellaneous business Wednesday Convention called to order by ths chairman at II A Prayer by the RL Rev Magr Thomu Bona Bl Mary of Perpetual Help rectory Chicago MUllOa a i Report of committee an credentials Report of commute on permanent organization Address of permanent ehalrman Report of committee on rules and order of business Recess until 4 Reconvene at 4 Report of committee on resolutions Thursday-Convention called to order by tha ehalrman at 11 A Prayer by Rabbi Ferdinand isserman Tempi Israel St Louis Music Nominations of candidates for President of tha United States Roll call on presidential nominations 1 Nominations of candidate for Vies President of tha United State Roll call on tha vice presidential nominations Election of national committee 1 Appointment of committee to notify tha candidate for President Appointment of committee to notify the candidate for Vice President The expected debate over prohibition however may prolong tho convention another day 1 DETECTIVE TRACES PHONE CALL BRINKERT ARRESTED WHITE PLAINS June 11 W) ututeneu of a White Plains detective RoyP Turner wu responsible for tha apprehension In New Rochelle Friday night of Ernest flrlnkert Turner had been detailed to 80 Eut Put road here 1 where Tommy Fay known to bt an acquaintance of Brlnkert Uvea At 10:45 when Turner wu at tha Pay home tha telephone rang It wu Brlnkert calling Pay "Just a minute terete someone wants to speak to Pay told Brlnkert uid Detective Turner 11 spoke to Brlnkert I asked him If te would come over and see me Ha uld be would te over right away stalled a little on tho phone and then railed tha chief operator to trace tha Brlnkert call The number wu for a house on Sickles avenue New Rochelle" "Wa informed the New Rochelle police and they got RECORD WHITE PLAINS June 11 (UF) Emest Brlnkert arrested suspect In tha Lindbergh kidnaping rase had bean arrested three times previously In Westchester county and wu convicted once on an aauult charge Ha wu described In a New Jersey police bulletin as a chauffeur roofer and painter Hta police record follows: Arrested Oct 91 1933 on petty larceny charge No disposition wu made of the case Arrested April 7 1939 on an aauult charge and remanded to the Westchester county Jail for an Indeterminate sentence He aerved only a few days Arrested April 19 1939 under the name of Ernest Brown on an aauult charge No disposition wu mada of tha case By Elmer Mcssner VIOLET MIARrE ERNEST BR1NKEET from Pus ll suming she wu the only one who eould have been the "spy" for the kidnaping gang as ahe knew the workings of the Lindbergh household and tha movements of the Lindbergh family Police particularly wanted to question her abler Emily who left for England four days after Dr Condon had paid tha $50000 ransom Prom Reading Eng Saturday tha United Press wu advised that Georgs Sharpe father of Violet and Emily when appraised of hta daughter's suicide' had Immediately summoned Emily home Brlnkert had been Identified positively through photographs shown Mbs Bharpa tha day before aha killed herself She uld ha wu her companion on mysterious auto ride the night of March 1 the night ths baby was snatched from hta crib In Hopewell to be murdered Two other persons accompanied Mbs Sharpe' on That rids they were aha did not know or would not tell One wu a man tha other a woman Tara Other On Trip Tha second woman according to Mlu Bharpa and tha state police wu not her stater Edna a passenger on an England-bound liner April 6 They did not link her departure at that data with the payment of 950000 ransom reported four days earlier by Dr Condon Dr Condon Incidentally hu not positively Identified pictures of Brlnkert the mysterious Scandinavian named John to whom he paid the ransom money And when ha uw Brlnkert he did not mako known If ha knew the man Brlnkert wu questioned all night long after hta capture while attempting to move from a parking space The taxi driver's license numbers had been noted by an attendant re-ding newspaper extras describing Mlu Sharpe's aulelde Woman Is Upas' Tha suspect wu in one room Condon In an adjoining room Detectives moved swiftly from room to room' checking questions and answers of both -Then Just before dawn a woman believed to be Mrs Brlnkert wu hurried to the scene She wu excited nervous and obviously upset by her early morning awakening Police had reported previously that they had found Brlnkert'a wife He had been known to Morrow servants an unmarried man This woman's story according to Safety Director Turley conflicted with that told by Brlnkert "She had toft tha city shortly after her husband had been caught by pollee" Turley uld "Each uld he or aha had an alibi Their alibis did not check" After continued questioning or both separately they were brought face to face by Inspector Walsh Wlfo Net Detained It was hoped that knowledge there wu a Mrs Helen Brlnkert legally married to Brlnkert In 1997 might cause the second woman to turn on the taxi driver and tall what aha knew If anything about hta relations with the Morrow houftchoUL Mrs Helen Brlnkert 435 Main street White Plains had told police she had not seen her husband In four years and "did not cs re what happened to him" She wu not detained for questioning (Continued The picture ol him In our possession was obtained from the lice ns bureau end la very evidently a picture of the man now et Alpiw "Brlnkert speaks very good English and has no perceptible accent of any kind Dr Condon (the Jafsle who paid futile $50400 ransom for the Lindbergh baby) Interviewed Ernest Brlnkert In New Rochelle lut night and after talking to him told the pollee authorities that he did not recognise him and had never seen him before end could make no Identification of him In any way" "An advsnes report from Dr Ralph Gillady Bergen county physician" Schwarzkopf continued "indicates that Violet Sharpe died of cyanide poisoning careful crimination of all vital organa revealed that ahe wu perfectly normal lr every way and did not suffer from any disease at tha time of her death 1 in Vj i 4 Servant Who Ended Life i Suspected as Informer TRENTON June 11 Ernest Brlnkert taxicab driver friend of Violet Sharpe the maid who committed suicide Friday rather than face further questioning In the Lindbergh kidnaping esse wu taken Into New Jersey Saturday while police checked hta story to force a confession that ha had of the kidnaping and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr Brlnkert wu with Mbs Sharpe March the night the Lindbergh baby wu stolen from his crib Immediately after Mlu Sharpe a servant In the home of Mrs Dwight Morrow et Englewood committed suicide after being sum maned for further questioning by police Brlnkert wu arrested at New Roehelle He pertly resembled a description of to whom Dr John Condon (Jafole) paid 150000 In ransom he had criminal record end two women claimed they had married him while he represented himself to Mbs Sharpe single Stsries Conflict Through the night Brlnkert wu quntloned In New Rochelle and then it dawn Inspector Harry Welsh of the Jersey City Folios department started on a tour through New Jersey with Brlnkert accompanying him During the night Brlnkert had told evasive and conflicting stories of hta former life and hta activities on March 1 Walsh whose questioning methods led to confession by John Hughes Curtis that he had fabricated a story of ransom negotlsUdna In order to make personal financial gain wu relentless ho talked' with Brlnkert He had directed the questioning of Mbs Sharpe end had summoned hyr for tho conference ahe feared to attend Meanwhile authorities cheeked back on Violet Sharpe the demure English girl who suddenly became the central point In the vast International search for the slayers and murderers of the Lindbergh baby She committed suicide because ahe Is lined she could not further undergo Walsh's questioning Maid's Sister SsughL After her death Col1 Norman Schwarzkopf superintendent of state police said she had hern "under suspicion" and Walsh uld police wen as of France Passes s- roomed in New York city Investigating iif her history the police found that Violet Vv --y had a substantial bank account If she left a note giving any key to crime the police made no mention They said however that her handwriting did not resemble the script 9n the ransom note left on the nursery Indow The Information now fat tha hands of the police was assembled by lhtAegreea partly from the girl's own re-1 facta nt admissions and partly from evi-'jfrnce they found in her room Brlnkert has been seen at White a occasionally since Match 1 He wed $50 from Patrolman Dan not long ago Brlnkert Enters Case Violet's name waa carefully kept out of all statements made public during the search When MaJ Charles Bhoef-fel went to England to check on various aspects of the ease ha Investigated her record and found that It waa clear It waa by chance that Brlnkert enter-ed Into the picture at all Going through her effects In the Morrow home the estate police found among various addressee a card with the Post Road Taxicab company printed on It They Investigated and found that the company had gone out of business six months earlier Although Brlnkert' name wu not qn the card they found that the business presumably waa owned by him This trail led to tha rogue's gallery if where they got his full name It elded with a story aha told of a man named ''Ernie" Violet proved a problem from the atari When the other servants went Into the greatest ZKfyW detail about everything they had done she resisted all attempts to get at the truth Once she said ahe went to a moving picture show on the night of March 1 then she uld she went to a grill But she would not name the persons who wen with her 1 -'Hysterical Over Picture Finally aha uld according to Inspector Harry Walsh that on Feb 91 aha and' her slater went down town In Englewood and wen picked up by a man In an automobile They went to a moving picture and then to a madhouse' aha said She Instated that aha knew tho man only "Ernie" But at no time did aha give a satis factory- explanation of her movements on the night of Manh 1 Then suddenly Walsh confronted her with Brlnken'a photognph on Thursday and she "shook to pieces" "When she uw that picture she wu very ha uld "Birr became hysterical and shook all over Wt thought It would be unwtae to continue questioning her at that time and concluded to bring her here to the Alpine police headquarters' Friday morning after ahe had a night's sleep and to have a physician on hand while wen questioning her 1 we went there to notify her to come here for questioning she went upstairs and took poison" A Favorite af Mrs Morrew Tha suicide occurred at' 10:45 A Violet had known the child from the earliest days of his life He had been at Englewood most of tha time since his birth The woman wu knowir to go out very little In the -evening although her stater Emily had the reputation of constantly staying out late Tha two staters saw each other frequently For a time Emily lived In New York city with a woman named Bliss The Sharpes live In Berkshire England Violet wu a favorite with Mr Morrow who la reported to find It difficult to believe that she may have been Involved In the kidnaping-Pollee believe that another man and aonther woman were out driving with Brlnkert and Violet on the night of March 1 The records show that Violet Sharpe was In Englewood from May 10 to May 14 Her tonsils and adenoids were removed by Dr Ward on the recommendation of Dr Walter Phillips Mrs personal physician The baby's body wu found In the wood near Hopewell on Msy 19 while Violet was still in the hospital An autopsy will be performed and efforts already have been made to discover how tha woman got hold of the poison AU her movements have hem Histories! 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