Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
CLAIM To BRING
DEAD TO LIFE
PROMINENT EASTERN MEN IN
TROUBLE
Government Authorities Investigating
"Foree Of Lifev Company and Two
Arrests Made-Gen. j. r.
o'Beirne Is President
f,y Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Z NEW YORK, Jan. 13-General James
II. O'Beirne, for years more or less
prominent i'm Republican politics in this
city, and who has held a number OF
offices under the United States govern
inent, is given as president in the lit
erature of the Force OF Life Chemical
company. the medical director of which,
DIR. William Wallace Hadley, and AS
sistant Medical Director Mrs. Laura M.
Wilson, were yesterday arrested by
federal authorities and held I'm S25OO
BAIL each for examination a week from
today. General O'Beirne has been a
special agent of the treasury depart
ment. assistant commissioner of immi-
grafton in the department of New York
and in the department of charities in
this city He became president of the
concern in September last, when r..
Virgil Neal its alleged organizer and
first president resigned.
General O'Beirne was seen following
the arrests, but his counsel refused to
allow him to be interviewed.
The prisoners are charged with con-
spiracy to obtain money under false
pretenses by the use of the United
States mails.
In the complaint lodged against
them, two other officials of the Force
OF Life Chemical company are named
conspiracy These two officials are
now out of the city.
The Force of Life Chemical company
for the last three or four years has
maintained elaborate offices in this
city. At present the company is To-
Gated at 2255 Broadway. 1t has done
an extensive mail business. An Of
ficial of the company told the postal
authorities that the concern had not
less than one million patients.
Investigation of Many Months
The investigation leading to the ar
rest had covered n period of almost
year, and has been managed jointly
by the postoffce authorities, As
sistant United States District Attorney
Clarence S. Houghton, Champ S. An
drews and John S. Cooper, the two
latter as counsel for the New York
County Medical society. The federal
authorities started on the trail of the
Force of Life concern on the personal
initiative of President Roosevelt.
Two weeks ago there is said to have
been migration of the most prom
inent Force of Lifers to Syracuse, n.
Y.
When the two prisoners were ar
raigned before Commissioner RdgWay,
Attorney John ]. Vause appeared asI
their counsel and furnished bonds to
animation, Mr.. Vause said last night
that the Force of Life company was
doing perfectly legitimate business
and that the two prisoners We're only
salaried employees of the concern, VINO
did what they were told and had
nothing whatever to do with its NAH
agement.
IN the glare of a midnight light, "
one of the advertisements of the COM
pany reads, bending over his crucibe
and retorts, Dr. William Wallace Had |
ley cried triumphantly:
4 have it At last he had sue
ceeded in making a rare chemical COM
bination of concentrated extracts which
might truly be called liquid life There
il was glimmerng in it's sheen of ruby
red, while the retort itself seemed to
CULVER and vibrate as if in the effort |
of restraining the tremendous dynamic
force 1t held.
Essence of Life"
There was lecthin, the force of life, |
the power that makes man live and
think. Without this subtle essence in
your system death would occur before !
you could read three of these lines. |
With it in sufficient quantity you can
combat any disease To discover and
make the vital principle of life has
been the dream of the chemist and the
zeal of the medical professor of all
ages"
For a whole year, since this an
nouncement was sent broadcast through |
the mails as a preamble to a pamphlet !
issued by the Force of Life Chemical
company, in which extraordinary vir-
tues were claimed for it's preparations,
the United States authorities and the
New York Medical society have been
examining complaints against the com
pany in an effort to get evidence enough !
TO make arrests.
I The power to raise the dead claimed
1t is alleged, by DIR. Hadley, first chal-
lenged the attention of the authorities
q little less than a year ago, when Post |