Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-10
Doctor is Advised TO Seek Legal
Advice Elsewhere.
MORE ATTACKS ON vERACITY
Navigator Says He Compiled
plste Set Of 0bservs
WILL BE SENT TO COPE.
DR.. Terp Says they WI
Examined Along with DR.. Co,
Records-secretary Denies
Any CoIIusiOn.

NEW YORK. Dec. s-Dr. Frederick
Cooks personal lawyer. Henry winingtsa1
wock. has severed relations with his
client Mr.. wack refused tonight 70 con-
firm or deny his withdrawal but Il can
be affirmed on competent authority that
after a consultation with his partners. Mr..
Wack wrote DR.. Cook 50 long ago as
November 30 that he must beg him to seek
legal advice elsewhere.
y have not the rernotest idea" said
Mr.. Wack tonight. where DR.. Cook is
keeping himself or why he persists in
seclusion when his presence is vital TO his
onw interests and his friends. ] read that
he Is IN Brooklyn. In a ssEitarium, in
Maine, in Philadelphia asylum. but per
sonally I incline to the beliefe that he is
abroad One thing Is certain. there is
agreement tonight for the first time among
those who have always believed that DR..
Cook discovered the north pole. those
who have never believed and those who
have waited 10 be Informed on disinter-
ested authority
Broker and Navigator.
aPartisans and skeptics alike now con-
cede 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 com
mission. Two men. one a broker who
says he acted as go-between and 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 his narrative as origf-
nally published These sworn statements
carry with themselves their own proof
or disproof That is 10 say, II the papers
now in the hands Of the University Of
Copenhagen contain any considerable por-
ton Of the boreal observations which Cap
tain August Loose says be worked out
by the reverse route no farther narth
than the Gramatan Inn IN Bronxvilie, in
New York the deduction Is that Or. Cook
felt no cnufsdenoe IN thsfHdeduacy Of MS
own proofs II on the contrary. the
Copenhagen records show that Dr. Cook
made no efficient use Of the deduction Cap
tain Loose says ne supplied II VIII be fair
TO assume that he accepted them only as
checks on his own data The inquiry
win then revert to its first status-are the
original observations Of Dr. Cook suf-
ficientg
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 not heard from him since
Tuesday. November q.
My very urgent letters TO the doctor
Rave remained unanswered, although they
demanded a reply from any man soncitous
for his own affairs"
Mr.. Wack. however did receive letter
from Mrs. Cook on December 6 dated De-
cember and posted December s. IN Brook
lyn. asking him TO discontinue all ex-
penses on the doctors account and TOT or
ward certain papers which Mr.. Waek, IN
derstood 70 be afrdavits bearing on the
doctors disputed ascent Of Mount McKin-
ley These affidavits the doctor had orig.
inslly intended 20 take with him 10 Europe
where they could be available for the Uni
versity OF Copenhagen. il desired.
story of Captain Loose.
Others OF DR.. Cooks friends granted to-
night that Captain Loose consulted freely
with him and even occupied rooms adjoin.
ing his al the Gramatan Inn. Whether
this propihquity served as an opportunity
for cooperation merely. or for collusion
Is a point on which not even Captain
Loose cared 70 pronounce positively. Th'
captain however. went freely into his Owl
motives this afternoon.
i went 20 Dr. Cook" said Captain Loose
thinking that ! might be Of some assist
ance 70 him, but never expected when
as ! have done. A short talk with DR.
Cook convinced me that he knew almos
nothing about navigation. He was ignor
ant Of some Of the essentials OF the science
AT first l considered IL at least iikely
that DR.. Cook had got near the pole. sa!
TO So degrees OF within sixty miles Of tn
pole. Even his obsera ations would hav,
given him that accuracy. Later wa
forced 20 change that opinion
a person mol especially accurate Nigh
have thought himself az the pole when onll
within sixty miles Of Il. but as 60
deeper into the matter ! began 70 suspec
that DIT. Cook was never out Of sight 0
hand.
Please notice that / have never sal
that Dr. Cook Is about TO submit my eal
culatlons 10 the University Of Copenhage
as IA s0wn observt tions. Dr. Cook nsve
intimateo sueh to me. I was working 10
pay then and was indifferent on that point
Nov I have not received my pay. I don
express an opinion about when or how DI
Cook wrote up his record books
Or Cook never allowed me 10 inspec
hls original records or, indeed. any snor
Of them than has been published inN N
aeWspapers"
Based On Fiction.
COPENHAGEN. Dec s.-Dr Torn. rs
sent Of the University Of CopenhaEeI
said that the charges published in n
New York Times against DIT. Frederic
A. Cook are based on pure fiction. Nevei
theiess. he added. he would accept n
offer 70 examine the documents prepare
by Loose and DuRkie which the Tim,
has agreed 20 send % Copenhagen.
Walter Lonsdale. secretary 70 Dr. Coo
who brought the explorers records
Clpenhasen. also declared that the acc
uoqs published n New York and LoI
lo1 AGAINST Dr. Cooa were totally ~
-fced lie said that ne papers d,
40 the Unirersity OF Copenhags
the original observations mad
Cook during the expedition. Nitl