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Grace Quackenbos Humiston, aka Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The White Slavery Crisis in the United States

Grace humiston's last high profile investigation wound up really damaging her reputation and her career. Her work on the ruth cruger case and the public response to it had been threaded through with the idea of white slavery. Humiston alleged that there was a vast sex trafficking operation at work involving soldiers at camp upton, which had been built on long island as a departure point for us. Troops headed to europe during world war one. She claimed that there were 600 unmarried, pregnant women living in and around the camp. And she also said that seven had been killed, including two under aged girls. The n y p d stripped both her and crone of their badges. The grace

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