Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1892 — CONSUL RYDER'S GUILT. [ARTICLE]

CONSUL RYDER'S GUILT.

A United States Official Confesses to Em- - ' ■ bezzlemenU Henry B. Ryder, the United States consul at Copenhagen, who Is under arrest charged with baying misappropriated the sum of 200,000 kroners, has confessed that he is guilty of embezzlemeuL In his confession Ryder says that be produced false receipts, and that he induced his wife to maKea falso statement when he was arraigned in court. M#s. Ryder is also under arrest, but it is probable that she will be released. Several weeks ago Mr. Ryder and bls wife were both publicly accused of dishon cst practices, by which thev obtained large sums of money. Both were placed under arrest and both have strenuously Insisted that they were innocenk Ryder is g man of previously good character, but has been living very extravagantly at