The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-10-09
MURPHY DENIES
COOKS STORY
Boatswain of Peary's Ship
Gets Into Print.
LOANED COOK HIS PANTS

Describes Explorers Return to Etah
in Effort to Refute the Latter's
Charge of cruelty-DecIares Com
mander Peary Has Charts Made by
Brooklyn Mans Eskimos Showing
He Did Not Reach the Pole.
New York, Oct. S.--John Murphy of
Newfoundland was and is the boat
swain Of Commander Peary's ship, the
Roosevelt He is the man who was
left at Etah in charge of the stores.
He is the man whom DR.. Cook has
charged with extreme cruelty. He Is
one of the men who received the sup
plies landed by Captain Joseph g.
Rernier of the Canadian patrol ship
Arctic and, if half he says is true,
there viii be a sudden upheaval in the
North pole controversy.
He is one of the three white men
who know what happened at Etah.
DR.. Cook has already made his state
ment Harry Whitney will not speak.
Regarding the charges of cruelty Muir
ply says:
Il have read in many papers that i
would not take DR.. Cook into the hut
at Etah and that / was cruel to him.
| will never believe that DR.. Cook
said these things, because we were
81, {, nf fffAn
parted the best Of friends. Why, the
day he got into Etah / shaved him.
Cook Shakes Murphy's Hand.
"He had nothing but his heavy
sealsFin pants and they are too heavy
to wear in the house because they are
SO hot and uncomfortable ! loaned
Dr. Cook my own pants and he wore
them in the house the five days he
was with me. Do you think If We
| had been bad friends he would have
worn my pants? When it came time
| for him to go away he shook hands
| with me and said, Murphy, as long as
| | live / will never forget you for youi
kindness to me- That's what DR.
| Cook said to me; his last word. y
More important than all, Murphy
| knows that Cook told Whitney anC
another member Of Peary's crew that
he had reached the North pole, bu
! he does not believe that Cook sue
ceeded. He bases his testimony Oh
the evidence given Peary by the tw'
| Fskimos who were with Cook. Mur
| ply says that Commander Peary nov
has in his possession charts Of th'
| Northern country on which the tw'
natives traced the route taken b.
DR.. Cook.
Eskimos Mark Cooks Course.
'"The commander had these twr
huskies' on board" Murphy contin
ued, land questioned them abou
| where Cook had been. While the
I talked they took pencils aud shove
on the chart just where they had bee
with Cook. They say that he mad
two days journey toward the mort
and then camped At the end of tn
/, | first day he had encached a heav
, gun. At the end of the second da
2 he ordered one of the huskies TO s
back and get that gun. DR.. Coo
I waited two days for the man to com
/ Iup with the gun and then the thre
men turned westward and that wa
as far north as they ever got. TIL
commander has those marked chart
| now.
II was in Etah when this man Be
r nier came in with the ship Arcti
81 with supplies. Harry Whitney we
y also at Etah. Whitney came to m
and asked me what to do with tn
supplies that were consigned to hin
IL said we would take them and Sc
that the huskies did not get at then
So the supplies were landed and "
e took care of them and they were thel
| when DR.. Cook got back"