Antoinette's Execution Was Put on Hold for 30 Days to Give Grace a Chance to Petition the New Jersey Supreme Court

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The day before antoinette was scheduled to be executed, grace happened to run into the governor on a train. She approached him and found a way to convince him to stop the execution. Antoinette's sentence was reduced to seven years in prison. Some reporters said that grace could solve mysteries no one else could because of her woman's intuition. The new york eve world reported that grace had done the impossible - she is rather worth thinking about.

In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpened in the motorcycle shop of a man named Alfredo Cocchi. Newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend, and New York police said that there were no clues to go on. But an investigator named Grace Quackenbos Humiston decided that she would do whatever it took to find her. She became known as “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.”

Brad Ricca’s book is Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation.

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