"MRS. SHERLOCK HOLMES"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 43, 15 November 1918, Page 3

"MRS. SHERLOCK HOLMES"

NEW YORK'S WOMAN DETECTIVE. "Tho Woman Sleuth" New York calls nor, but to her friends she is just a simple, charming womun, answering to Mrs. Grace Humiston, but withal one of tho busiest persons in the whole of New York and with unlimited resources at her disposal in the prosecution of her especial-work—keeping track of a big city's criminal force, and its many rainiticato'ns.

Mrs. Humiston, who is a trained lawyer, says she made efficiency her watchword, and on it she has built up whatever reputation she has achieved in the solution, of sociological problems defying tho keenly-trained masculine brains of thn Criminology Investigation Department. Maybe she owes not a little of her success, too, to the fact that her husband happens to bo a particularly brilliant man of law, and the family hearth is a≤ good a place as an oflice, and better oftentimes, whereat- to untie knots and settle questions, and sift the pros and cons thnt girdle a vexed world. Jlni those who vouch for her personally say that above all elm is a "regular woman," which, interpreted, means that she still regards a hat n$ "the darlingcst thing," and not a piccp , of unnecessary headgear, and a fashion display has tho power to lure her rjiiito as easily as it does the delinquents who stand before her desk when she gets down to tlic business of tho day. There is a long and creditable list of cases to Mrs. lliimislon's name, but she is devoting her fullest energies and abilities towards women and girl mysteries— willi which New York and its environs Abound.

She is a. sleuth of unbelievable tenacity when it conies to a question of unravelling tho tangled skeins of a murder mystery or :i disappearance. Since licr iir.-t great success in bringing to. light the murderers of Ruth Criiger— a horror tlmi mystified New York for a Ions; whileMrs. Iliiinistoii found her namo thereafter, spelt in capital loiters and her office besieged by countless parents, till demanding that she find for them an erring son or daughter. And—she isn'. 1 even, pretty, almost middle-aged; and wears her hair parted in the middle.