Famous Wall Street speculator missing . Mr Jesse L Livermore , millionaire and one of Wall Street 's most spectacular figures , is being searched for by the New York police . He failed to return home at the close of the New York Stock Exchange and his wife became alarmed . Mr Livermore sprang into fame as " the boy plunger " in the panic of 1907 and afterwards was the hero of several sensational Stock Exchange campaigns . Photo shows ; Mr Jesse L Livermore . 20 December 1933