Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-01-14


Conspiracy to Obtain Money Under
False Pretenses by Misuse of Malls
New York, Jan. 13.-General James
O'Belrne for years more or less prom.
lnent in Republican politics in this
city and who held a number of offices
under the United States, is given as
president in the literature of the Force
OF Lie Co., the director of which is
Dr. William Wallace Hadley, and as
assist ant medical director, Mrs. w. w.
wilson, were yesterday arrested by
federal authorities and held in S2.5OO
bail each for examination a week from
today.
General O'Beirne has been a special
OF the treasury department in the port
New York, and commissioner Of char.
ity in this city
The prisoners are charged with con.
spiracy to obtain money under false
pretenses by the use of the United
States mails. The Force of Life Co.
for the last three or four years has
maintained elaborate offices in this
city. At present the company is 10.
Gated at 2256 Broadway 1t has done
an extensive mail business. A mem.
Der of the company told the postal au.
thorities that the concern had no less
than 1,000,G 900 patients.
In the glare of midnight light" one
OF the advertisements reads bending
over his cructble Dir. William Wallace
Hadley cried trtumphantly: I have il
He had discovered chemical extracts
which might be truly called Liquid
Life" There was lecithin, the force
of life, the power that makes man live
and think. Without this subtle es
sence in your system death would oc.
cur before you could read three OF
these lines With 1t in sufficient quaint
ty you can combat disease. 81
ITO discover and make the Vita
principle Of life has been tie toll OF
chemists for all ages"
The power to raise the dead claim
ed, it is alleged by Dr. HadIey, first
Challenged the attention of the authori
ties little less than year ago when
Postmaster General Cortelyou received
a personal letter from President Roose
welt enclosing one of the Force Of Life
Co.'S circulars which had been sent tc
the president by a woman in Spring
field, MO. Mr., Cortelyou at once com
municated with Postmaster Wilcox ir
Ehis city who detailed inspectors to in.
vestigate tae methods of the concern.
In the letter from the Springfield wo
man to President Roosevelt, there was
inclOsed cne of the stock letters from
the Force of Life concern. 1t started
off as follows:
by his mysterious control over dis
ease and death DR.. Wallace Hadley
the eminent thaumaturgic panopatnist
OF this city, mas made the human heart
beat again in the body OF a woman
rescued from the grave. AS resu;
OF this successful experiment he makes
The startling statement tha no disease
should cause death He seems tc
have absolute control over human life
and the diseases that al ack it,"
Evidence upon which the complaints
were based. was secured through cor.
respondence of fictitious patients. One
Of these, Lucille Hoffman," wrote that
she was young girl OF % and follow.
ed this step with some intimate infor.
nation. Several letters that follow.
ed were printed circulars containing
staple advice, received also, it is al
legged by a number of other fictitious
patients who had written given other
ailments.
Complaining that she had not i'm.
proved Lucille Hoffman" was asked
to send a sample of her blood for anal.
ysis. The correspondent obtained
some blood from horse which he put
into a bottle and forwarded. A couple
of days later he got letter which de-
clared that the analysis pointed ia
physical conditions which the recipient
said made him sorry for the horse.
Among the most interesting docu-
ments that have fallen into the hand OF
the investigators in an alleged person.
al letter from DR.. Hadley to a patient
containing these sentences:
II cure disease L combat any and all
maladies. make hopeless invalids
we'll. I unclasp the remorseless fin
gers of death"
-,@.,z-@ on,~A, -, ,nH,o-I0A