death of Sophie Loeb (p. 355): “Sophie Irene Loeb,” Democrat and Chronicle, January 19, 1929, 2.
“crime is imitation” (p. 355): Edward Swann, “What Do District Attorneys Say,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 26, 1921, 64.
Pierini’s mousetrap (p. 355): “Still Another MouseTrap,” Popular Science, October, 1919, 76; Brodie Crump, “Tidbits from the Phone Book,” Delta Democrat-Times, November 22, 1972, 4.
Churchill, De Gaulle and Adenauer (p. 356): Richard Roy, “Joe Grigg’s WWII Experiences,” downhold.org/lowry/griggs.html.
death of Dooling (p. 356): “J.T. Dooling Dies,” New York Times, November 16, 1949, 29.
monies he had given to Sulzer (p. 356): Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, 136th Session, Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1913, 129.
death of Herbert Roemmele (p. 356): “Herbert Roemmele,” New York Times, August 16, 1983. At the time of his death, he had one great-grandchild.
“and other classes” (p. 357): “Suffrage Not a Natural Right,” New York Times, May 24, 1915, 10.
death of Stimson (p. 357): “Henry L. Stimson,” New York Times, October 21, 1950.
“admitted the crime in a dream” (p. 357): “Dead Girl’s Spouse,” Washington Times, April 9, 1919, 1.
national convention in 1927 (p. 358): “Past Supreme Commanders,” Military Order of the Cootie, Program Book 2011–2012, 22.
Solan (p. 358): “Grand Central Terminal Says Farewell,” New York Times, July 1, 1948, 25.
Maria Cocchi (p. 358): “Maria Cocchi,” National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington, D.C.; Index to Naturalization Petitions of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1865–1957; microfilm serial M1164; microfilm roll 44.
Grace’s background (p. 359): “Mrs. Grace Humiston Tells,” Eau Claire Sunday Leader, July 8, 1917.
“sought companionship elsewhere” (p. 360): “I Hear—,” Tatler, November, 1921, 6.
excessive drinking (p. 360): Author’s personal conversation with Randall Boehm.
Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston (p. 360): death certificate for Howard Humiston, July 21, 1943, registered no. 33, Office of the Secretary Division of Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
“Auntie Disgrace” (p. 360): Author’s personal interview with Day grandson.
“not received them from me” (p. 360): Letter, Grace Quackenbos to Edward C. Stokes, January 15, 1906. New Jersey State Archives, R. Group: Governor Edward Caspar Stokes (1860–1942) Series: Correspondence, 1904–08, files 618–21, box 6.
“we just file paperwork” (p. 361): Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, “NYPD: How the Police Handles Missing Person,” themissingny.nycitynewsservice.com, 2015.
“place in my heart” (p. 361): “Is It Safe for a Woman Ever to Tell All?” San Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 1920, 3.
“can be checked” (p. 362): “Disappearing Girls and White Slaves,” Urologic and Cutaneous Review, vol. 21, October, 1917, 594.
“road to ruin” (p. 362): “Mystery of Our Missing Girls,” Charlotte News, December 3, 1922, 27.
“you will tolerate it at all” (p. 362): “Statement of Mrs. Mary Grace Quackenbos,” Hearings Before Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. House of Representatives, 61st Congress. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, March 29, 1910, 438.
NCMEC (p. 362): missingkids.org. The site walkfree.org also provides worldwide statistics and resources.
State Department (p. 362): “Trafficking in Persons Report,” U.S. Department of State, July 2015, http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/.
Cleveland girls (p. 363): John Glatt, The Lost Girls, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015.
“coming for you” (p. 363): Meghan Keneally, “Small Ohio Town,” ABC News, June 24, 2015. http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-now-helping-search-killer-string-murders-ohio/story?id=32006473.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Ruth’s clothing (p. 365): “Can Now Forget,” San Bernadino County Sun, July 9, 1924, 20.
“Frightened Eyes” (p. 367): “Case of the Frightened Eyes,”Daily Herald, July 8, 1956, 43.
morgues (p. 368): Scott Sherman, “The Long Good-Bye, Vanity Fair, November 30, 2012.
Grace Humiston (p. 368): Karen Abbott, “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes,” Smithsonian.com, August 23, 2011; Charles Kelly, The Crime Lawyer, Kindle ed., 2002, and Grace Humiston and the Vanishing, Self-published, 2012, fiction; Tim McCarl, “The First Woman Detective,” Murder, Mischief and Mayhem: A Process for Creative Research Papers, Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1978.
work of government agents (p. 369): FOIa request 1301332-000, October 6, 2014.
“to each individual story” (p. 369): “Statement of Mrs. Mary Grace Quackenbos,” Hearings Before Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. House of Representatives, 61st Congress. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, March 29, 1910, 433.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MAJOR WORKS
The majority of sources for this book are the newspaper articles or periodicals that are cited in the notes. This list includes the major textual sources on Grace Humiston and some of the subjects of this book. The shortness of this list reflects how little has been written about her.
Abbott, Karen. “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.” Smithsonian.com. August 23, 2011.
Boehm, Randolph. “Mary Grace Quackenbos and the Federal Campaign Against Peonage.” Shadows over Sunnyside. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 1993.
Bond, George H. “Report by the Special Deputy Attorney.” New York: New York State Attorney General’s Office, 1917.
Borgognoni, Elizabeth Olivi. Italians of Sunnyside 1895–1995, Lake Village, AK: Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, 1995.
Daniel, Pete, ed. The Peonage Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1901–1945. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1989.
Dougherty, Joseph F., and K. S. Daiger. “Behind Drawn Blinds.” True Detective Mysteries, March 30, 1930.
Evans, Colin. Slaughter on a Snowy Morn. London: Icon, 2010.
Halvorsen, Dick. “The Hidden Grave.” Master Detective, April 1954.
Humiston, Grace, with Isabel Stephen. “Won’t You Help Me Find My Girl?” Actual Detective May 4, 1938.
Hunt, William R. Front-Page Detective. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State UP, 1990.
Kelly, Charles. The Crime Lawyer. Amazon Kindle ed., 2002.
______. Grace Humiston and the Vanishing. Self-published, 2012.
Klein, Gertrude. “But the State Said She Must Hang.” Actual Detective, March 23, 1938.
Kron, Julius J., with Isabel Stephen. “The Inside Story of the Ruth Cruger Case.” True Detective, May 1926.
______. “My Encounter with a White-Slave Ring.” Mysterious Crimes. New York: True Story, 1934.
Marshall, Frank. “Where There Are Women There’s a Way.” Good Housekeeping, July 1918.
McCarl, Tim. “The First Woman Detective.” Murder, Mischief and Mayhem: A Process for Creative Research Papers. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1978.
New Jersey v. Tolla. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined Before the New Jersey Supreme Court, Newark: Soney and Sage, 1906.