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Show Wall Street 'Wonder9 Dies in Prison I I Lajst October he wa rearrested! in a brokerage office and admitted violatmn nt him parnl Ha pleaded t truilty to defrauding 83 inveatora of '$200,000 and waa aentenced to aerve from five to 10 years and. In addition, addi-tion, to complete hu first term of 1 10 years. OSSINING. N. Y, Dec. 30 (JPt Harold Russell Ryder, "boy wonder" won-der" of Wall Urtet, is dead fruin a heart attack two weeks after he had been returned to Sing Sing prison. He waa el. Four yeara of freedom on parole from a 1930 larceny aentence had ended December 13. when he entered en-tered the prison to aerve from 12 to 17 yeara. His death occurred yesterday In the hilltop prison hospital, to which he had climbed for a routine phyai---' ---minalifn Known aa a Broadway playboy. Ryder waa reported to have tossed 1 $1000 bills in the laps of entertainer., entertain-er., He owned 100 suits, T pairs of shoes, a (350 diamond aet ciararet 'case, 12500 traveling- bag and 13300 automobile, all of which an attorney waa commissioned to auction off several daya ago. The former Wall street runner who pyramided a shoestring to 15.-OUOOOO 15.-OUOOOO pleaded guilty in 1930 to larceny lar-ceny of (95.452 which he had received re-ceived to purcnase stocks. He was sentenced to serve three to 10 years and pamied after iwayeara and three months. |