アビゲイル・スペンサーのインスタグラム(abigailspencer) - 4月26日 02時43分

Grace Humiston was a celebrated lawyer, a famous detective, and the first female U.S. District Attorney in history. Her specialty was tracking down missing persons, yet she remains largely (and mysteriously) missing from history herself. She was a graduate of the Law School of New York University and was a leader in exposing peonage in the American South. Humiston founded the People's Law Firm in 1905. The firm focused primarily on the cases of the working poor and immigrants. Humiston met fierce resistance to her work to expose peonage. Plantation owners deliberately worked to thwart her investigations, often using the fact that she was a woman to belittle her work. Later in her career Humiston, was given the moniker "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes" after solving the disappearance of 18-year-old Ruth Cruger. Cruger disappeared on February 13, 1917. The police investigated, but the case went cold quickly. Her father Henry Cruger posted a $1,000 reward and hired Humiston to investigate. She took the case pro bono, and after interviewing several Harlem residents and deciphering a blurred message on a blotter, Humiston determined to search the basement of suspect Alfredo Cocchi. There Humiston found the body of Ruth Cruger. Cruger then accused the NYPD of negligence, and a subsequent investigation revealed that there had been a longstanding kickback scheme between Cocchi and the local police. Because of the case and the resulting public criticism, Humiston was named a special investigator to the New York City Police Department, charged with tracing missing girls, in July 1917. The salaciousness of the story and Humiston’s unlikely heroism made her a superstar in national newspapers. She also became a target: accumulating enemies, especially among police, who were made to look incompetent. That led to inquiries that uncovered damning behavior in their ranks. Then—aside from a few scattered episodes—Humiston disappeared from public view. By all accounts, Grace Humiston’s work – in the courtroom, on the tenement stoops, in the swamps, and even across the world – marked her as a social crusader of the first order. #herstory #timeless #wcw

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