The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-01-20
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 Roosevelt.


investigation Begun on Information
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 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, Dr. 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 years
has maintained elaborate Offices IN
this city. AT present the company Is
located at 2255 Broadway. 1t 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 10 the ar
rest had covered a period OF almost
year. and has been managed Jointly
by the postoffice authorities. Assistant
United States District Attorney c. S.
Houghton. Champe :. Andrews and
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,
1t is alleged, by DR.. Hadley, first chal-
fenged the attention OF the authorities
year ago, when Postmaster General
Cortelyou received a personal letter
from President Roosevelt. inciosing
one of the Force of Life circulars
which had been sent TO The President
by woman in Springfield, Missouri.
In addition to President James X.
O'Beirne, 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.
I. The directors are, besides the
above: Edwin O. keeler, William F..
Acton. f. Virgil Neal, r. T. Bagley
and James F. Pierce.
Mr.. Pierce was formerly superin-
tendent of insurance of New York
state.
f. Virgil Neal, with DR.. 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 a
director of the Co,Operative Building
bank in this city. He lives in Mount
Vernon.
Frederick II. Wilson is superintend-
ent of the United States Indian ware
house in this city.
Mr.. Keeler is said to he 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 F. Acton is described as
president of the Norwalk Securities
Corporation and late secretary and
treasurer and general manager of the
Norwalk Street Railway Company of
Connecticut, and r. T. Bagley as presi-
dent of the Consolidated Hoof Pad
Company of New York.
The concern is a Delaware corpora,
ton, organized in 1902. Its capital
stock is given as $1.00o.00O.
In the letter from the Springfield
woman to President Roosevelt there
was inclosed one of the stock letters
from the Force of Life concern. 1t
started off as follows:
BY his mysterious control over dis
ease and death DIR. Wallace Hadley,
the eminent taumalurgic panopathist
of this city, has made the human
heart beat again in the body of
woman rescued from the grave. And
as result of his successful expert,
ment he makes the startling state
ment that no disease should cause
death. He claims to have discovered
the vital principle of life itself, the
dynamic force that creates and main
tains existence. He seems to have ab,
solute control over human life and the
diseases that attack it."
Evidence upon which the com
plants were based was secured
through correspondence with fictitious
patients.