New-York tribune., 1909-12-17
FAKER, SAYS OSBON
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/ fit to come out in the open and follow
| my advice
Your reliance on the course you are
/ pursuing cannot but bring disaster 10
/ you. and IL would have redounded 20
/ your credit TO have followed my advice
/ After Your promise to me and your not
| having fulfilled that promise am led TO
believe that The Times or others have
| bought you off.
Il am leaving the city tomorrow and
/ will not be at the Office after IL a. m.
/ If YOU see fit to call on me before that
! time I may be able to explain away
/ some of the arguments Mr.. Dunkle or
/ others have evidently put up TO you"
! Captain Osbon does not believe that
/ Looses narrative. as supported by his
| affidavits, was part of any plot to dis
/ credit DIR. Cook
PROMOTOR AND WORKMAN.
THE idea originated with Loose and
/ Dunkle." says Captain Osbon- They
( had for sale. matter in this controversy
so explosive that nobody dared handle
] L.
/ about for something else. Dunkle was
the promoter, Loose the workman
IF" said Captain Osbon. Loose does
not call to-day on my friend and sign
the confession. my friend will make
/ public the whole matter.
"Dunkle got most Of the money" he
| continued. That's what Loose says. and
now he is casting around to see where
! he stands. He's got conscience and
il smarts.
Il wrote these facts in private letters
to Captain Bernier and others. and their
premature publication is a mistake and
may spoil what would have been COM
plete documentary proof OF my asser-
tion. sworn to before a notary.
How did this man prevail on Loose
| TO confess?" was asked.
He told Loose straight out" said the
captain. that Loose was playing check
ers with his own nose
Captain OsbOn did not deny that Dr.
and that money passed between them.
But he added; Il know enough ship
mates OF the doctor who went into the
Antarctic with him to be sure the doctor
needed nobody to fabricate observa-
tions for him. No doubt he set problems
for Loose by which TO check his own CAL
culations."
A sidelight was flashed on the present
situation by Captain Osbon when he
said with some show OF mystery that he
knew four men ready TO testify that
I fret hoH I, ,T,tI
story that would have injured Peary. and
they went to Cook with II, but Cook re
fused 10 have anything to do with ii.
/ This, he said. was about Thanksgiving
4 Day.
The confession of Loose will show the
world one reason why Dr. Cook went
/ into retirement" Captain Osbon contin-
/ ued. He has had more alleged friends
/ handing him out propositions to either
/ increase his wealth or deplete il than
any other man in the last century
! The friend OF Captain Osbon and the
| man alleged by Captain Loose TO have
| offered $4,000 for a repudiation by him of
/ the afidavits appear 10 be one and the
/ same by reason of the phraseology of
/ the letter of December Is addressed to
| Captain Loose. This letter is signed by
| George III. LightfoOt. president of the
| Pan-American Development Company,
| at No. 80 Broadway. Captain Loose
made no secret of its contents or of the
| name of It's author.
/ 'Lghtfoot has been after me with an
! offer of $4,000 in cash TO repudiate those
| affidavits" he said. Il haven't seen Can
tain OsbOn I'm two months. Lishtfoot is
I'm the rubber business. He told me some
months ago that he wanted a captain TO
/ take charge of the Emily B. Wright. a
/ schooner. and would pay me $3.50 a
/ month. | took il, and hung around
/ Pier 20. South Brooklyn. where the
I schooner was tied up. got s75 a month
/ for two months work The boat didn't
/ leave the dock.
When I saw that the ship wasn't go
/ ing 10 be sent to South America. as I
had been informed she would be. | told
Lightfoot / could sell her To the Cook
relief committee. We got into touch
/ with Osbon. and since then Iightfoot
and OsbOn have been together frequent
! ly. | was To act as captain of that ex-
pedltion."
/ When seen last night George Dunkle
said: Yesterday Captain Loose showed
| me a copy OF a letter he had received.
inviting him to make a clean breast OF IT,
/ told him that he ought 10 remember
that he had already made one affidavit
and that any contradiction OF that am
davit over his signature would make
him out a liar in one instance or the
| other
! He told me that he had never made
any verbal confession and therefore. of
/ course. he did not intend 20 make a
written one. although he had been in
formed that there was $4,000 on deposit
that would he turned over TO him the
| ninuta he nut his slcnatnre 10 a 90.