Bruno Richard Hauptmann Entering a Court Room for a Bail Hearing in Connection With the Lindberghs Case, 1930s. Hauptmann: A man whose neat records of his savings and expenses showed, that while in America he had spent $49,950 more than he had earned...Hauptmann appealed to be released on bail, but when he was brought before the judge, such was the nature of his crime, that there was little hope...The state was in no mood to be lenient, so into jail he went. From "Time To Remember - The Tough Guys", 1930s (Reel 3); documentary film, mainly about life in depression- and gangster-hit America.