Professor Hamilton's Diary: Jan. 6, 1935

They go to church and visit friends; Lindbergh fingers Hauptmann as killer

The Hamiltons were regular church-goers. Today, which was also Epiphany, the final day of Christmas on many church calendars, he took Gwennie to her Sunday school class and he and Margaret to church. Professor Hamilton makes the curious comment, “She stayed to communion,” which indicates to me that perhaps he did not. In the afternoon, they visited with another faculty family, the Cooks, at Stony Creek, about five miles outside Reading, who had a little boy for Gwennie to play with. “We had cocoa,” he said. They were home by 5 p.m. He looked over his lessons for the next day while listening to the radio.

The trial of Bruno Hauptmann, accused of kidnapping and killing the toddler son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, made banner headlines. Paid subscribers can read all about it. Want to upgrade to paid? Click below.