The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-10
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Cook.
DIR. Cooks personal lawyer. Henry
Wellington Wack, has severed rela-
tions with his client
Mr.. Wacsx has refused to con-
firm or deny his withdrawal but it
can be affirmed on competent author
ity that. after consultation with his
partners, Mr.. Wack wrote DR.. Cook
so long ago as November 80 that he
must beg him to seek legal advice
elsewhere.
Il have not the remostest idea," said
Mr.. Wack tonight, where DR.. Cook
is keeping himself or why he persists
in seclusion when his presence is vital
to his own interests and his friends.
/ read that he is IN Brooklyn, in a
sanitarium in Maine, in a Philadel-
phia asylum. but personally incline
to the be ief that. he is abroad.
Makes Remarkable Deductions.
Zone thing, however, is certain
there is agreement tonight for the
first time among those who have al
ways believed that DR.. Cook discov-
cred the north pole, those who have
never believed and those who have
been waiting to be informed on dis
interested authority. Partisans and
skeptics alike now concede certain
cardinal facts which admit 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
who says he acted as a gO-between,
and one skillful navigator-have
sworn that they supplied the, doctor
with complete set of fabricated OBJ
servations, covering his trip north
ward step by step to the pole, in
agreement with his narrative as orig
inally published. These sworn state
ments carry within themselves their
own proof or disproof.
That is to say, if the papers now
in the hands of the University of
Copenhagen contain any considerable
portion of the boreal observations
which Captain August Loose says he
worked out by the reverse route no
further north than the Gramatan Inn
in Bronxvile, New York, the de-
duction is that DIR. Cook felt no con-
fidence in the adequacy of his own
proofs.
IF, on the contrary, the Copen-
hagen records show that DR.. Cook
made no evident use of the ca,cula-
tons Captain Loose says he supplied,
it will he fair to assume that he ac-
copied hem only as checks on his
own data. The inquiry will then re-
vert to it's first status: Are the orig
inal observations of DR.. Cook suf
ficent?"
Wack Beats About Bush.
Asked fatty if he had or had not
withdrawn from DIR. Cooks affairs,
Mr. Wack said:
This is not the time for an an
nouncement. 1t might be thought 1
had deserted Dr. Cook in his need
He may be delirious in a sanitarium
or on the ocean unable to defend
himself.
A close friend of Mr.. Wack reit-
Grated. however, that Mr. Wack had
long ago decided to c,ose dealings
with Client who did not keep his
counsel informed Of his intentions or
movements.
To this phase of the situation Mr..
Wack made this contribution:
"Dr. Cook has disappeared of his
own volition and not by the suasion
Of his friends. 1 last heard from
him by telephone on Tuesday, No
vember 23. I had seen him person
ally two days before.
last night DR.. Cooks friend,
Charles Wake. confessed to me that
he had not the faintest idea where
the doctor now is and that he had
November 23.
my urgent letters to the doctor
have remained unanswered, although
they demanded a reply from any man
solicitious for his own affairs
Wack Virtually "Fired."
Mr.. Wack received a letter from
Mrs. Cook on December 6, dated
in Brooklyn, asking him to discon-
tinue all expenses on the doctors ac-
count and to forward certain papers
which Mr.. Wack understood to be
affidavits bearing on the doctors
disputed ascent of Mount Mckinley.
These affidavits the doctor had orig
inally intended to take with him to
Europe, where they cou'd be avail
able for the University Of Copen-
hagen if desired.
Others Of DR.. Cooks friends grant
ed tonight that Captain Loose con-
su ted freely with him and even oc-
cupied rooms adjoining him at the
Gramatan Inn. Whether this pro-
pinquity served as an opportunity for
cooperation merely; or for collision,
is a point on which not even Captain
Loose cared to pronounce positively.
The captain, however, went freely
into his own motives this afternoon
Il went to DR.. Cook he said,
thinking I could help him. short
talk convinced me he was ignorant
Of some Of the essentials Of naviga-
ton. My task enlarged, but that was
no question for me to debate so long
as I was paid. Now that the pay
ments have ceased and the doctor has
disappeared, I speak out.
Il supplied the figures. They were
Il &C.