New York City Police Commissioner John Francis O'Ryan Making an Official Announcement, 1930s. "The crime of the century" - the Lindbergh kidnapping case, USA. 'The continent [North America] is electrified by a sudden announcement on the Lindbergh mystery from a police commissioner. "We have in custody, the man who received the ransom money. His name is Bernard Richard Hauptmann, 1279, East Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Second Street, in the borough of the Bronx in the city of New York. He came to this country as a stowaway eleven years ago. He is an alien, unlawfully in the country". [Question:] "Will this solve the Lindbergh kidnapping?" [O'Ryan]: "In the opinion of all three of us - yes".' From "Time To Remember - The Tough Guys", 1930s (Reel 3); documentary film, mainly about life in depression- and gangster-hit America.
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