Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-12-11
DR.. COOK STILL
MISSING, HIS
Lawyer QUITS
TIRES OF CLIENT
WHO WILL NOT ANSWER I'M.
PoRTANT LETTERS; NO NEWS
FROM COPENHAGEN.

New York, Dec. 1o.-Dr. Frederick
A. Cooks personal lawyer, Henry
Wellington Wack has severed rela-
tions with his client. Mr.. Wack refused
to confirm or deny his withdrawal, but
it can be affirmed on competent auth
ority that after a consultation with his
partners, Mr.. Wack wrote DR.. Cook
$50 long ago as Nov. 80 that he must
beg him to seek legal advice some
where.
Il have not the remotest idea" said
Mr.. Wack last night, where DR.. Cook
is keeping himself or why he persists
in seclusion when his presence is vital
to his own interests and his friends.
II read that he Is in Brooklyn, in a
sanitarium in Maine, in Philadel-
phia asylum, but personally incline
/ to the belief that he Is abroad
"One thing, however, is certain
there is an agreement for the first
time among those who have always
believed that DR.. Cook discovered the
north pole. those who have never be-
llieved and those who have waited to
be informed on dtsinterested authority.
Partisans and skeptics alike now con-
| cede certain cardinal facts, which adj
init of no argument, namely: DR.. Cook
has sent his records to the University
| of Copenhagen for the inspection of a
commission. Two men-one a broker
! WIZ says ne dCleu dS SODSIWeGn, dnu
| one a skilled navigator-have sworn
| that they supplied the doctor with a
complete set of fabricated observations
| covering his trip northward step by
.step to the POLE in agreement with
1 his narrative as originally published
4 These sworn statements carry within
themselves their own proof or dis
proof.
Doubted His Own Proofs.
THAT is to say, if the papers now in
the hands of the University of Copen-
hagan contain any considerable por-
tion of the boreal observations which
4 Captain August Loose says he worked
lout by the reverse route on farther
north than the Gramatan inn il
| Bronxville, New York. the deduction |.
that DR.. Cook felt no confidence in the
adequacy of his own proofs.
IF, on the contrary, the Copenhagen
4 records show that DR.. Cook made M
evident use of the calculations Captain
4 Loose says he supplied, it will be fail
to assume that he accepted them only
as checks on his own data. The in.
quiry will then revert to it's frs
status: Are the original observation.
!of DR.. Cook sufficient
4 Asked fatty If he had or had no
withdrawn from DR.. Cooks affairs
/ Mr.. Wacll said:
This is not the time for an ain
nouncement. 1t might be thought / hat
deserted DR.. Cook in his need. He ma,
be delirious in q sanitarium or on th,
ocean unable to defend himself"
4 A close friend of Mr. Wack reiterat
ed, however. that Mr.. Wack had loni
ago decided to close dealings with
a client who did not keep his counsel in
formed of his intentions or movements
To this phase of the situation MI
Wack made this contribution:
DIR. Cook he said, has disappear
ed of his own violation and not by tn
suasion of his friends. / last hear
from him by telephone on Tuesday
Nov. %. / had seen him PERSONAL
two days before.
Last night DR.. Cooks FRIEND
Charles Wake, confessed to me that h
had not the faintest idea where tn
, doctor now is and that he had no
heard from him since Tuesday, Nov
%.
Letters to Cook Unanswered
My very urgent letters to the doc
J tor have remained unanswered, al
though they demand reply from an
man solicitous for his own affairs"
Mr.. Wack, however, did receive
letter from Mrs. Cook on Dec 6, date
Dec. 4 and posted Dec. 5 in Brooklyn
, asking him to discontinue all expense
on the doctors account and to forwar
!, certain papers which Mr.. Wack under
! stood to be affidavits bearing on th
doctors disputed ascent of Mour
) Mckinley. These affidavits the docto
had originally intended to take wit
him to Europe, where they could b
, available for the University of Copen
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