Evening star., 1933-12-20
Wife Phones Police for Hunt
as Justice Agents Are
Put on Case.
LAST SEEN YESTERDAY
LEAVING HIS APARTMENT
Wall Street Operations and Marital
Adventures Recalled-Millions
of Dollars Won and Lost.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 20.-Jesse L.
Livermore, wealthy stock market opera
tor. was missing today under circum-
stances that led his wife to tell
authorities she believed him kidnapped.
He had been threatened by kidnapers.
There has been no trace since 3 pm.
yesterday of the man whose spectacular
operations in Wall Street earned him
the title Of "the hoy plunger' in his
younger days.
The Department of Justice ordered
its agents in the Bureau OF Investiga-
ton, which handles kidnapping cases
under the Federal law. to enter the
case in cooperation with New York
police.
Calls Police at Midnight.
Mrs. Livermore, distraught and wait
ing for some word at her Park avenue
home. first communicated with police
last midnight to tell them she thought
her husband had been abducted.
Livermores invariable custom. she
said, was to telephone her regularly
when he was away from home.
She last heard from him, she said,
when he left their apartment at pm.
upon his return home from his office.
Police checked without success various
hospitals and hotels, and sought out for
questioning friends who might ord1-
narily have met him at his favorlte
hauntS.
At the Iivermore apartment. the but
Ter informed callers that Mrs Llvermore
was resting and waiting some word that
might give q clue to her husbands
whereabouts. The main entrance TO the
apartment building was locked, and only
residents and persons proving they nao
legitimate business were admitted.
Iivernore was seen yesterday in the
financial district as was customary. One
of the partners of Pearl a. Co., which
has handled much of his brokerage busi-
ness, said he had an account with them
and had been In yesterday on one OF MS
regular visits. Brokers were myStthed
by his disappearance.
outside Stock Exchange.
Iivermore has no exchange connec.
tions and in the past has directed his
extensive operations from his own office.
Because no request for ransom had
been relayed to the Livermore home,
detectives had hopes that the missing
man might return during the day and
explain his absence.
F. x. Fay, in charge of the Federal
Department of Justice Bureau, said,
I'VE have no clue and nothing TO in
dicate kidnapping, but are investigating.
In the financial district 1t was gen.
orally understood that Livermore had
not been greatly interested In the>stock
market for, some time.
In News Many Years.
Livermore, who Is Sc years old, has
figured prominently in the news for
many years. Most recently, he was
named in q $3.50, 900 breach Of promise
suit brought by Miss MAZDA Krassnova.
in October of this year. He filed a
general denial of the charges and a
motion for q bill Of particulars. The
case Is still pending.
Livermore first gained prominence for
his speculations on the New York Curb
Market in which he was reputed to
have made and lost millions Of dollars.
Later he turned to grain and early in
1925 was reported to have made a for
tune IN wheat. He retired as a member
(Contip1Ied on pace o Col1In,n ~