Evening star., 1932-06-11
Girl Who Killed
Self Named
Ex-COnvict.
DRANK POISON
TO AVOID QUIZ
Man Held Offers
Alibi in Lindbergh
Baby Case.

immigration records show
that Emily Sharpe, sister of the
maid who committed suicide in
the Morrow home yesterday,
applied for permission to leave
the country the day the Lind
bergh baby was stolen.
BY the Associated Press.
ALPINE, N. j., June 11.-Ernest
Brinkert, eX-convict, arrested in
the Lindbergh case, told his story
to State police today, and imme-
dlately thereafter officers drove
rapidly away for an unannounced
destination.
Arrested in New Rochelle, N. Y,
last night after the suicide of
Violet Sharpe, waitress in the En-
glewood. n. j., home of Mrs.
Dwight w. Morrow, grandmother
of the murdered Lindbergh baby,
Brinkert came here voluntarily
early today, waving extradltion.
He fatty denied an ante-mor-
tenn statement by Miss Sharpe
that she had spent the evening
Of March /. the night the baby
was stolen, with him.
Alibi Is Offered.
On the contrary, ne insisted, he and
his wife spent both that night and the
night following at "a very nice home"
owned by a colored man in BRIDGEPORT,
Conn.
Soon after this alibi was made pub
lie Inspector Harry Walsh of the Jer-
sey City police. who has charge OF the
Brinkert examination, left the State
police station in an automobile with a
trooper and an unidentified man in
civilian clothes.
1t was determined that this man was
no. the prisoner and it was learned
that Brirkert would be held at Alpine
at least until his alibi was checked.
Presumably he gave police the name
of the Bridgeport man, but this infor-
nation was not made public.
The body of Miss Sharpe, in whom
Mrs. Morrow expressed her faith even
after the suicide, lay today in an En-
gleWood undertaking establishment,
where an autopsy was performed. A
partial report on this autopsy dis
closed that the servant had not been
suffering from any ailment, and that
there was no physical reason discover
able to explain her act.
Identified Picture.
The young woman had been ques-
toned repeatedly because her early
routine examination did not satisfy
police, and 1t was when police called
again yesterday TO continue their in
vestlgatlon that she drank a draft of
deadly poison.
The day before she died. however,
she had identified picture of Brinkert
as that Of man who had telephoned
her at the Morrow home on the after
noon of March l and whom she told
that the Lindberghs had decided to
stay another day at Hopewell instead
Of returning to Englewood
And she said that she had gone for
drive with him on the evening of
March !. She made conflicting state
ments as 10 where they had gone, and
before police could pin her down on
this point she became so nervous and
hyster.cal they had to postpone the
Questioning When they returned she
killed herself:
Brlnkert's abb statement that he
had spent the night of March l in
Er!dgepOrt takes major development
q the L;ndbe-gh case into Connecti-
cut tor the second time Soon after
the baby vas kidnaped Henry (RedJ
johnson, sailor suitor of Betty Cow,
the babys nurse, was arrested there.
Formerly Butler.
He finally established what police
said vas satisfactory alibi, but his
examination developed the fact that
he rad entered the country Illegally
and he was ordered deported. He has
never been sent out of the country. how
ever. and is still held at Ellis Island,
no explanation having been offered for
failure to deport him.
Johnson was arrested because he was
driving a green automobile, such a car
having been seen leaving the Lind
bergh estate the night of the kidnap-
ing. Brinkert also drives green car
and was parking it in New Rochelle
when he was arrested last night.
In information about Brinkert given
out by police he was described as taxi
driver. who had worked at various
other minor jobs and who had small
time police record. 1t was learned to-
day. however. that for five months
prior to the day of the kidnapping he
had been employed as a butler in a
Mamaroneck, N. Y. home and quit
that job on the day the baby was
stolen
AS soon as Brinkert was arrested he
was confronted by DR.. John F. Condor,
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