Show 18 BRITAIN RIT AIN HITS I HANDLING OF LINDY LI N 0 Y CASE CAS E Violet Sharpe Driven to Suicide Suicide Sui Sul- cide English Press Is Agreed POLICE METHODS SCORED American Civilization Inadequate Inadequate made made- quate Says Editorial By Br SIDNEY SID J. J WILLIA WILLIAMS IS United Press Staff Start Correspondent LONDON June 13 Bitter 13 Bitter newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper criticism that New Jersey po police police poi po- po lice third degree methods had driven driven en Violet Sharpe to kill herself reached the house of parliament to to- da day Some members were prepared even evento evento to o raise the question of or representations representations lions to the Un United ted States government on the ground that the police had hounded the girl to death Many British newspapers displayed New York dispatches suggesting that the police methods were vere responsible for the death of the servant in the Dwight W W. Morrow household There is strong belief in some quarters that an innocent girl was bullied by police pollee into taking her life lIle a cable to the News of the World said Hounded to death was the title tHle of an editorial in 10 the laborite Daily Herald which urged parliament to take lake up the question of the Sharpe suicide with the American government government govern govern- ment meat and said A wave of or revulsion will quite rightly be started in this countr country at atthe atthe atthe the disclosure of or American police methods whereby Violet Sharpe was driven to her death ASKS INQUIRIES The TIe British government should make tl the strongest representations and demand the most searching inquiries in in- quirles The Herald said that Frederick S Cocks laborite member of or the house of or commons would Ask Foreign Secretary Secretary Sec See Sir John Simon whether representations rep rep- would be made to the United States Th The liberal News-Chronicle News said that Brigadier General Howard Cliton Clifton Clifton Clif Clif- ton Brown representing the Newbury division of ol Berkshire where the Sharpe family lives would take up the question of representations if the Sharpes Sharpest or an any member of ot his constituency constituency con con- requested Sympathy for the poor girl and her relatives es will be widely felt and will not be ed with ith what hat seems seems on the face to be natural and just indignation at the methods which hounded her to death the News News- Chronicle said The conservative conservative Daily Dail Telegraph Continued on PaIr Pane Pace Two Tto BRITAIN HITS HANDLING OF LINDY CASE Continued from r rare Page e One was severely critical of ot the New Jersey Jer sey ey police pollee saying editorially C CHARGES DEATH I All the work of the American p po police polIce po- po r lice after octer many weeks discovers no single relevant fact net but adds to the baby murder the death of a tortured girl The Manchester Guardian said the Sharpe case seems particularly designed de signed to ventilate the inadequacy of American civilization Police Pollee gangsters intermediaries press and public all come badly out of ot it the newspaper said but the police potice Incapable on one hand of ot tracing tracing trac ing mg the real criminal and on the other recklessly severe in methods of in interrogation in stand or should stand condemned in the eyes of ever every decent decent de dc- cent person in the United States TRENTON ThETON N. N NJ J. J June 13 WP- WP UP UPstate State police and detectives investigating defended defend ing the Lindbergh ed themselves today against charges that third degree methods resulted in suicide of ot Violet Sharpe servant girl in the Dwight Morrow home The police had indicated by the theatress tress stress placed on Miss Sharpes Sharpe's suicide that they Uley had no other clue that would indicate a solution of the mystery mystery mys tery is any nearer than it was the day after the crime Inspector Harry Walsh who conducted conducted con con- ducted most mont of the questioning of the English born dining room girl said she had never ne been questioned b by police except in the Morrow home and the Lindbergh home Colonel Lindbergh was present once he said F FAMILY A LY PRESENT T Members of the Lindbergh or Morrow Mor Mor-I Mor row households were present on art each of the four occasions the girl was questioned Colonel H. H Norman of ot th the state police de de- dared The girl irl took poison polson a few minutes after otter she had been told to prepare for a trip to police headquarters forD fora for a U fifth fUth examination I There was never any undue pressure pressure pres pres- sure said Before the find surel finding ng of the childs child's body the girl adopted a superior attitude although she appeared nervous afterward She appeared not to be of an unbalanced temperament The girls girl's attitude the first time she was questioned it was indicated led to the further questioning and the discovery of several cards of the taxicab taxi taxi- cab company in which Ernest Brink BrinkS ert crt was interested I I CHECK DRIVERS Her story that she was riding with witha a 8 man named Ernie and one other man and a girl Cirl the night of the kid naping led to a check of all known taxicab operators named Ernie Brinkert was detained taken to New Jersey from New Rochelle N. N Y Yn and a circumstantial case the girl and Brinkert was built up by police Miss Sharpe in the presence of four witnesses had identified t the e blurred picture of ot Brinkert as the Ernie she had been with She did ld not know his last name or the names of the others she said Saturday night Ernest Miller of Closter N. N J. J near Englewood told police he and two others Catherine Minners Winners and Elmer Johnson of ne nearby nearby near near- rb r- r b by communities were with Miss Sharpe the night of March 1 Brink Brink- crt ert he said was not along She was wasa a nice girl Miller said Others in the party told straightforward straightforward straight straight- ht forward stories according to police who professed still to be puzzled by bythe bythe bythe the servant girls girl's identification The girl however was known to be beof beof beof of a nervous temperament at times hysterical in her answers Letters home and comment to friends indicated indi tadi- plainly her fear of ot the police questioning I |