The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-17
289sS S5lCaSE8S
 Ds Hg9 Charges and Counter Charges
 Cause Big FluIg ATTEMPTS MADE ID BRIBE Captain Loose and George DunkIe Say They Have Been Offered Big Sum to Retract But Have Not Agreed.
ATTEMPTS MADE TO BRlBE


 ] New York, December 1s.--There was
 another little polar furry in New York
 tonight which boiled down, resolved it. l self into series of charges and coun-
 ter charges. such as have been frequent
 since Dr. Cook, now in mysterious se-
 clusion. announced he had discovered the
 north pole.
 l B. s. Osborn, secretary of the Arctic
 club. came out first with statement
 indicating that Capt August W. Loose l was prepared to repudiate recent affi-
 davit published in New York news | paper that he had faked records for Dr. | Cook
 ! After a hurried search, Loose was l found together with his associate,
 George Dunkle. He denied that he in- l tended to retract anything, stood by his affidavit and said, on the other hand,
 that attempts had been made to bribe i him into contradiction of his previous { declarations. Dunkle confirmed him in i this
 l captain Loose. In his statement, said: i T have refused an Offer of between ! SfoVo and s5oo0 to -repudiate my affidavit i Ill regard to the observations 1 furnished ! pr. Cook The offer was made to me
 verbally on December 10 I refused it. l l the person whc made this offer, ask l ing me to come to his office. I paid no attention to 1t. and on December 13 1 l received sec md letter urging that l come forward with the whole truth and make clean breast of it. To this i also paid no attention. understand,
 however, that Captain Osborn has seen
 copies of these letters. They are the
 only basis for his accusat ticns.'
 Captain Loose volunteered further de- i tails of his dealings with Dr. Cook which i were not published in his first narra- | tive
 The observations l made for Dr. | Cook, said Captain Loose. were calcu-
 lated on the basis that they were taken
 at o'clock in tine morning. I tolA the doctor to take these records and figure out from them what the observations would be at o'clock in the afternoon tha same day. In that way, explained. 1t would not be necessary for the doctor to submit to the Copenhagen commission the actual records that had faked for
 him.
 "I did this in order that might as far as possible lay at rest any suspicious Dr. Cook might have of me and any fear ot
 his that l might have too great hold
 on him.
 You can use the observations you
 make from mlne,' I told him, and so you
 can repudiate any statement might pos
 sihly make at sometime In the future 1 about having furnished you with your ob- /. servations.''
 Geoige Dunkle made the following l statement tonight:
 l yesterday Captain Loose showed me a i copy of letter he had secured. inviting 1 him to make d clean breast of 1t. l told | him that he ought to remember that he i had already made one affidavit. and that l any contradiction of that affidavit ove. i his signature would make him out liar in one instance or the other.
 He told me that he had never made any verbal confession and therefore he did not intend to make written one. al- 1 though he had been informed that there was S40oO on deposit that would be turned over to him the minute he put this sig nature to a confession" In the foregoing Dunkle gave the name of the man whom he said had made this offer to Captain Loose. Letter to Canadian Explorer. Ottawa. December l6.-"Ca ptain Looss -.~-~~~.>~~~~~-~~ ~
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