The Lamar register., 1906-01-17
FORCE OF LIFE"
PROMINENT POLITICIANS IN PAT
ENT MEDICINE SCHEME.
CLAIM TO RAISE THE DEAD
Officers Arrested In New York City
Investigation Begun on Information
Furnished by President RoosexeIt.

Furnished by President Roosevelt.
New York.-Gen, James r. O'Beirne,
for years more or less prominent in
Republican politics in this city, and
who has held a number of Offices
under the government. is given as
president in the literature of the
Force of Life Chemical Company, the
medical director OF which, DIR. William
Wallace Hadley, and assistant medical
director, Mrs. Laura NJ Wilson. were
on Friday arrested by federal authori-
ties and held in $500 bail each for
examination.
The Force of Life Chemical Com
pany for the last three or four wears
has maintained elaborate offices in
this city. At present the COMPANY is
located at 2255 Broadway. II has done
an extensive mail business An official
of the company told the postal au-
thorities that the concern had not less
than 100000 patients.
The investigation leading to the ar
rest had covered Il period of almost a
year, and has been managed jointly
by the postoffice authorities. Assistant
United States District Attorney C. S.
John S. Cooper, the two latter as
counsel for the New York County Med
ical Society. The federal authorities
started on the trail of the Force of
Life concern on the personal initia-
tive of President Roosevelt.
The power to raise the dead claimed,
it is alleged, by DR.. Hadlcy. first chal-
lenged the attention of the authorities
a year ago, when Postmaster General
Cortelyou received personal letter
from President Roosevelt. incloslng
one of the Force of Life circulars
which had been sent TO the President
by woman in Springfield, Missouri.
In addition to President James II.
OBeirne, the literature issued by the
company and the latest corporation
directory, give the following officers of
the Force of Life Chemical Company:
James A. Tedford, vice president;
Arthur II. Williams, treasurer, and
Frederick II. Wilson. secretary.
The directors are. besides the
above: Edwin o. Keelcr. William f.
Acton, e. Virgil Neal, X. r. Bagley
and James F.. Pierce.
Mr. Pierce was formerly superin.
tendent of insurance of New York
state.
E. Virgil Neal, with DIR. Hadley and
Miss Wilson, it is alleged, furnished
the real brains of the concern.
Arthur II. Williams, treasurer and
director, is president of the Bankers
Realty & Security Company, trustee
of the Washington Savings bank and n
director of the Co Operative Building
bank in this city. He lives in Mount
Vernon.
Frederick II. Wilson is superintcnd-
M tho IfnitaI Indian
house in this city.
Mr.. Keeler is said TO be president of
the Fairfield County National bank,
vice president of the South Norwalk
Trust Company and former lieutenant
governor of the state of Connecticut.
William +. Acton is described AS
president of the Norwalk Securities
Corporation and late secretary ana
treasurer and general manager Of tho |
Norwalk Street Railway Company OF
Connecticut, and II. T. Baglcy as presi |
dent of the Consolidated Hoof Pad
Company of New York.
The concern is a Delaware corpora
tion. organized in 1902. Its capital
stock is given as sl,O00,O0O
In the letter from the Springfield
was inclosed one of the stock letters
from the Force Of Life concern. l.
started off as follows:
by his mysterious control over dis
ease and death Or. Wallace Hadley.
the eminent taumuturgic panoparhist
Of this city, has made the human
heart beat again in the body of II
woman rescued from the grave And
as result of his successf /, expert.
ment he makes the startn..S state
ment that no disease should caus
death. He claims TO have discovered
he vital principle of life itself, the
lynamic force that creates and main.
aims existence. He seems to have alb
;olute control over human life and the
diseases that attack it,
Evidence upon which the com,
llaints were based was secured
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