The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-11


after being summoned for
Brinkert was arrested at New
He partly resembled a de-
scription of John" to whom
DR.. John F. Condor paid
$4,000 in ransom, he had a
criminal record, and two
women claimed they had mar
ried him while he represented
himself to Miss Sharpe as
single.
Through the night he was ques-
toned in New Rochelle, and then at
dawn Inspector Harry Walsh of the
jersey City police department
started on a tour through New Jer-
sey with Brinkert accompanying
him.
During the night BrinKert had
told evasive and conflicting stories
of his former life and his activities
on March /.
Give Relentless Grilling
Walsh. whose questioning meth
DDS led to confession by John
Hughes Curtis that he had fabri-
Gated story of ransom negotia-
lions to make personal financial
gains, was relentless as he talked
with Brinkert.
He had directed the questioning
of Miss Sharpe and had summoned
her for the conference she feared to
attend.
The inspector placed Brinkert in
one room. In an adjoining room he
placed DR.. Condor, who had been
attempting to connect the taxicab
driver with the negotiations which
led to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
paying ransom money while his in
FAINT son already lay dead.
Detectives darted from room to
room, checking and rechecking
Brinkhert's story. They brought in
one woman who claimed she married
Brinkert last September and had
been living with him in New Ro-
chelle. This story differed from
Brinkert'S.
Mrs. Helen Brinkert married the
taxicab driver in 1927. She said
Friday night she didn't care what
happened to him."
Taken on Motor Trip
After hours of this, the trip
through New Jersey was decided
upon. At high speed the motor car
containing police and the taxicab
driver swung through Westchester
! county and thence into New Jersey.
Meanwhile, authorities checked
back on Violet Sharpe, the demure
English girl who suddenly became
the central point in the vast inter
national search for the kidnapers
and murders of the Lindbergh baby.
She committed suicide because she
claimed she could not further
undergo Walsh'S questioning.
After her death, Colonel H. Nor
man Schwarzkopf, superintendent of
state police, said she had been
under suspicion" and Walsh said
police were assuming she was the
only one who could have been the
spy for the kidnapping gang, as she
knew the workings of the Lindbergh
household and the movements of
the Lindbergh family.
Police particularly wanted to
question her sister, Edna, who left
for England four days after Condor
had paid the $4,000 ransom. From
Reading, England today the United
Press was advised that George
Sharpe, father of Violet and Edna,
when apprised of his daughters
suicide Immediately had summoned
Emily" home.
Picture Is Identified
This is believed to be Edna as
Violet had used both names with
the same Toronto address at one
time as an emergency reference.
A picture of Brinkert was identi-
fed positively by Violet the day be-
for she killed herself, as the man
she was with the night of the kid
mapping. She and her sister, Edna,
she said, had met Brinkert in
Englewood in a harmless fiirta-
ton"
At noon, March l, the day of the
kidnapping, she knew the Lindberghs
planned to remain in Hopewell that
night, breaking their custom. At l
o'clock Brinkert called and made
a date for a motorcar trip.
About p. m, Violet had said,
she, Brinkert, one other man, and
another woman went riding, and
remained out until 1870, or until
after the kidnapping had been dis
covered. This was the only time in
two years of service with Mrs.