The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-11
'EX-CONVIC7 IS Held
FOLLOWING SUICIDE
|. OF M0RROW'S MAID
EnuIish Servant Girl Drank
Poison When About to be
Questioned by Police
ERNEST BRINKERT NABBED
Violet Sharpe and Suspect Had
Been Out Together Night
Of kidnapping
BULLETIN

Trenton, N. j., June 11.-(R-
The official afternoon news bull
letin on the Lindbergh case in
Dictated that police were investi-
eating the possibility that some
of the $4,000 ransom paid by DR..
John F. (Jafsie) Condor passed
through the hands of Violet
Sharpe or those of her associates.
New York, June 11.-(P)-The light
of law that since March has swept
in cropping circles for the Lindbergh
baby kidnaper-killer. burned inquir-
ingly and in sharp focus Saturday
upon an ex-convict. Ernest Brinkert.
The sudden suicide Friday Of an
English servant girl in the home at
Englewood. N. j., of Mrs. Dwight w.
Morrow (the naby's grandmother
and the arrest several hours later
in New Rochelle, N. Y, of the Ernie"
with whom she said she went motor
ing the night the baby was kidnap-
ed, gave the investigation into the
crime new impetus.
The girl, waitress at the Morrow
home for more than two years, was
Violet Sharpe, %. She was English
born, as was Betty Cow, the slain
babys nursemaid. who was among
the first questioned after the kid
naping.
Police had questioned her before.
They said she was the only one Of
the servants at the Morrow home In
Englewood and at the home of the
Charles A. Lindberghs near Hope
well, N. J.-where the kidnapping &C.
Cured and near where the child's
body was buried-who had failed to
account satisfactorily for her where
abouts the night of the crime.
Identified by Picture
Miss Sharpe told them she went
out that night with man and that
they had driven several places, but
until Thursday she had declined to
identify him. Then. police said, she
told them the mans name was
Ernie" and she identified a picture
lof Brinkert as that Of her compan-
ion that night.
Police returned Friday to continue
their questioning. Word was sent to
the young woman the police were
waiting. She started to the room
where they were and collapsed. She
died almost Immediately. She had
taken a quick-acting poison-a poi
son so dangerous its sale is not per-
mitted except on prescription.
The word went out Immediately to
arrest Brinkert, 30-year-old taxicab
driver of White Plains, NJ Y, a man
who has served a prison sentence for
assault. He was arrested at New
Rochelle Friday night. After being
questioned for many hours he was
taken to New Jersey, waving extradi-
ton.
New Jersey state police. who took
part in the questioning of Brinkert.
said they would seek his Indictment
but they did not amplify the state
ment, nor did they indicate what EVIL
dence. aside from the circumstance Of
the girls story and her suicide. they
hold against him.
Jafsie Confronts Brinkert
DR.. John F. Condor. the 72-year-old
"Jafsie" Of earlier episodes in the
Lindbergh case, confronted Brinkert
at New Rochelle. He said he was not
able to identify Brinkert as the
John" to whom he paid $4,000 ran
som money in Bronx cemetery early
in April.
A woman who said she was Mary
Brinkert. the cab drivers wife. was
questioned. Both she and Brinkert
had alibis covering the night the child
was kidnapped. Police said the stories
did not check. They declined to say
what the stories were. Mrs. Brinkert
was released after questioning.
When Brinkert signed a. waiver Of
extradition police started with him
/, for New Jersey. They announced he
would be taken to Jersey City; but
after crossing the Hudson river from
New York City into Fort Lee, N. j..
the car in which Brinkert was q pri$-
oner, eluded automobiles in which
newspapermen were riding. ana dis
appeared. It was apparent 1t had
changed its destination.
Maids Sister Sailed
| Other circumstances were being
given close attention by the New Jer-
sew state police. One was concerned
with Emily Sharpe, sister Of Violet.
Emily was with the Morrow servant
girl the day before the abduction. She
sailed for England four days after
"Jafsie" paid $4,000 Of Col. Lind
berghs money to the mysterious
John" in the graveyard rendezvous
Colonel Lindbergh himself who.
with his wife-the former Anne Nor
row-has been living at the Engle-
wood home Of his mother-in-law. was
present when the girl dropped from
the effects Of the poison. He was
with police few moments later when
they ransacked her room for err.
clue to the cause Of her self-murder
i Police said she had identified
lBrinkert's picture the day before
The police alarm for hts arrest. how
ever, was not sent ont On the intef-
state telegraph system until altar be-
|suicide.
I Col. n. Norman 0chWlrxkcpf. hoat
OF the New Jersey state polioe. sald 4
!. Z statement Friday night the GIRL hAk
. been under constant ssasp1clon Glnel
. Ishe Was first interviewed 81 ~ eox0
days Of the Investigation. =
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