Professor Hamilton's Diary: Jan. 13, 1935

They go to church; recent research questions Hauptmann verdict

Sundays were quiet days in Professor Hamilton’s world. He and Margaret took Gwendolyn to Sunday School and then went to church. In the afternoon he listened to an philmarmonic orchestra concert on the radio and finished reading Long Remember, the Civil War novel he had started on Friday. He studied in the evening.

The Lindbergh kidnapping was still dominating the newspapers. The poster here was accessed through Wikimedia Commons.

When I was speaking at Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, S.C. recently, a member of the audience told me about a new theory as to how the Lindbergh baby died — one suggesting that his father was implicated. I did a little Googling and found a January 2 news story that lays out the contention of an author in Oakland, California, which I share here to paid subscribers. Click below to upgrade.