GAMBLER'S SUICIDE
MAKER OF SIX FORTUNES NEW YORK, Nov. 30 One of Wall Street's greatest gamblers, Jesse Livermore. dining with liis wife in the fashionable New YorkStork Club, told a photographer seeking permission to obtain his picture;: "Not at all, but it's the last picture you'll take, because to-morrow I'm going away for a long, long time." On the following morning Livermore shot himself dead. His suicide was declared due to financial stress. Livermore made six fortunes and was bankrupt four times.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23829, 3 December 1940, Page 8
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