 [[Richard Hauptmann]], a 34-year-old German immigrant carpenter, was arrested near his home in [[the Bronx]], New York, on , 1934, after paying for gasoline with one of the ransom bills.$13,760 of the ransom money and other evidence was found in his home.Hauptmann went on trial for kidnapping, murder and extortion on , 1935 in a circus-like atmosphere in [[Flemington, New Jersey]].