Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Church in America (p. 337): Author, interview with Day grandson. In the 1930s, Jessie and two lady friends traveled by auto across the country with her chauffeur in a Packard limousine. The entire trip took almost four weeks.

Moor, who had come (p. 337): “Baptist Temple to Welcome,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 14, 1914, 12; “Hits Rockefeller at Flag Service,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 17, 1917, 5. He was also unafraid of controversy. When John D. Rockefeller began to assume the Baptists were behind him, Moor said that “If John D. Rockefeller knew as much about the Bible as he does about the Standard Oil Company, he might talk more intelligently in front of new servicemen.”

destroyed by fire (p. 337): “Dr. Moor Stops Sermon,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 19, 1917, 3; “Dr. Moor Returns,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 4, 1917, 7.

“Throne of God” (p. 338): “Dr. Moor Stirs Audience,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 13, 1916, 26.

doors were locked shut (p. 338): “Madison Av. Church,” New York Times, February 16, 1922, 1; “Church Ousts Third,” New York Times, February 28, 1922, 3.

“Feeling Gray” (p. 339): “Sift Moor Charges,” New York Times, February 19, 1922, 14. After Jessie Day was expelled, she turned the incriminating evidence over to the chairman and the board of trustees.

“to embarrass her” (p. 339): “Dr. Straton to Lay,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 21, 1922, 3.

“its present administration” (p. 339): “Minister Expelled,” New York Times, February 21, 1922, 5. Dr. John Roach Straton of Calvary Baptist was called in to help mediate.

ordered to reinstate (p. 340): “Baptists Reinstate,” New York Times, June 11, 1922, 21.

“Hades freezes over” (p. 340): “Minister Expelled,” New York Times, February 21, 1922, 5.

“heard her cries” (p. 341): “Grace Humiston Run Over,” New York Times, March 15, 1923, 21.

flu epidemic (p. 341): John M. Barry, The Great Influenza, New York: Penguin, 2005.

telegram to Amelia Earhart (p. 342): Telegram, May 23, 1932, New York, to Amelia Earhart, London, George Palmer Putnam Collection, Purdue University Archives and Special Collections.

Cocchi’s release (p. 342): “Alfredo Cocchi,” Convictions Register, Court of Appeals, Bologna, Italy, 1920; Author, personal interview with Renato Cocchi. Velotopica Cocchi is a bicycle store in Switzerland run by Renato Cocchi, who built and sold his own, very successful, “Cocchi” brand of cycle in 1997. His father was born in Piumazzo, Italy. That is “about 50 kilometers distant from Bologna,” Renato said, “so who knows?”

Grace’s death (p. 342): Death Certificate for Grace Humiston, July 16, 1948, file no. 16210, Department of Health of the City of New York.

Sunny Side report (p. 342): Mary Grace Quackenbos, Report on Sunnyside Plantation, Arkansas, Department of Justice Straight Numerical Files, Record Group 60, 100937, September 28, 1907.

intangible (p. 343): Grace would know that it was most likely not the same person. Or that it might be a common enough name. Or that the numbers didn’t fit. But she couldn’t know for sure. She might have wondered if it was a relative, or just the same name, or just a reminder that for all the people she had saved, there were many more who were lost, in one way or another.

“the same circumstances” (p. 344): Grace Humiston with Isabel Stephen, “Won’t You Help Me Find My Girl?” Actual Detective, May 4, 1938.





EPILOGUE


“Estate for $32,000” (p. 345): “Matter of Alfred M. Brown,” Surrogates Court, New York County, September, 1921, vol. 116, 485.

“reporting the accident” (p. 345): “Delays Report of Accident,” Pelham Sun, August 27, 1936.

Kron (p. 346): passport application, Julius J. Kron, U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925, Ancestry.com.

Hungary (p. 346): Thomas Sakmyster, Miklos Horthy: Hungary’s Admiral on Horseback, New York: Columbia UP, 2000; Bela Bodo, “Paramilitary Violence in Hungary After the First World War,” East European Quarterly, June 22, 2004.

Daily Worker (p. 347): A digital archive of issues is available at onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. The Worker was founded in Cleveland in 1924.

“present Hungarian Government” (p. 349): “Admits Shadowing the Karolyis,” New York Times, February 27, 1926, 7. The Károlyis would apply to be let into the United States numerous times, but except for a few lecture visits by the count, they would be rejected for any long-term stay. The countess admitted to wanting to retire in America for good, but the State Department refused. “Dangerous,” they said.

occupation read “Detective” (p. 349): death certificate for Julius J. Kron, November 24, 1934, file no. 25497, Department of Health of the City of New York. The doctor notes that bronchial pneumonia also contributed to his death. He is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Roselle Park, New Jersey.

McGee’s salary (p. 350): “Detective M’Gee Retired,” New York Evening World, September 18, 1919, 18.

hunt down German spies (p. 350): “Francis B. M’Gee, 67,” New York Times, July 20, 1939, 25.

death of Mitchel (p. 350): “Belt Unfastened,” New York Times, July 7, 1918.

death of J. J. Lynch (p. 351): “J. J. Lynch Dead in Yonkers,” November 25, 1931, 17.

death of Percy (p. 351): Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The House of Percy, New York, Oxford UP, 1994, 3. Five years later, during the great Mississippi flood of 1927, Percy sent his son, William Alexander Percy, to direct the work of thousands of black laborers on the levees near Greenville. He prevented them from being evacuated when the levee was breached. They were forced to work without pay to unload Red Cross relief supplies, which required the work of volunteers. Both father and son were criticized for these actions.

death of Stielow (p. 351): “Charles Stielow,” Medina Daily Journal, August 10, 1942, 1.

Lupo and Morello (p. 351): Thomas Reppetto, American Mafia, New York: Henry Holt, 2004.

death of Woods (p. 352): “Arthur Woods,” New York Times, May 13, 1942, 19.

“office of the District Attorney” (p. 352): “Police Department Orders,” New York Sun, January 23, 1920, 10.

John Lagarenne (p. 352): “J.L. Lagarenne, Ex-Deputy,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 19, 1949, 19.

“burned into me” (p. 353): Stephen Braun, “Clemency for Hanged Man,” Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2001; Susan Sontag, On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

“fought for her life” (p. 353): Ibid.

“so indifferently lost” (p. 354): Gertrude Klein, “But the State Said She Must Hang,” Actual Detective, March 23, 1938, 52.

death of Dent (p. 354): “Dr. Dent,” Charities and the Commons: A Weekly Journal of Philanthropy, vol. 15, October 1905–March 1906, 513.

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