The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-10
COOKS COUNSEL DESERTS CLIENT
 - Disgusted With Actions of
 Explorer. SOUNDS NOTE OF SKEPTICEM Gives Credence te AGdavits of Two
 Men. Lawyer Declares He Kaews Netkias of wAeresbszss sf Dr. cssa. But Believes Hin ts Be Abroad --Captsia Loose szskes
 statsnent.

lington wack. has severed relations with his client. Mir. wak refused tc confirm or deny his withdrawal. but Il can be affirmed on competent authority that after consultation with his part ners, Mir. wack wrote pr. Cook as long ago as November 30, that he must beg him to seek legal advice elsewhere.
 T have not the remotest idea." said Mir. wack tonight, where pr. Cook ii keeping himself or why he persists h secIuston when his presence Is vital te his own interests and his friends. itarinm In Maine. in Philadelphia asylum, but personally incline to the belief he Is abroad.
 "One thing. however. is certain. there Is agreement tonight for the first time among those who have always believed that pr. Cook discovered the North Pole, those who have never believed and those who have waited to be In formed of disinterested authority. Par tisans and skeptics alike now concsde certain cardinal facts which admit oi no argument. namely; Dr. Cook ha. sent his records to the University oi Copenhagen for the inspection of e
 Discusses Amdavfts.
 TWO men---one broker. who says he acted as go-between, and one q skilled navigator--have sworn thai they supplied the doctor with a com plete set of fabricated observations covering his trip ito the pole. in agree ment with his narrative as originally published. These sworn statements carry within themselves their owr proof or disproof.
 the hands of the university of Copen. hagen contain any considerable DOT. fion Of the boreaf obBervations whiel Captain Au gust Loose says ha worked out by the reverse rnutas no farther north than tho 9ramatan Inn In Bronx vile. New York. the deduction is the pr. Cook felt no confidence in the ad equacy of his own proofs.
 If on the contrary the Copenhagen records show that Dr. Cook made ns evident use of the calculations Captain Loose says he supplied. 1t will be fair to assume that he accepted them only as checks on hls own data. The in quiry will then revert to It's first stat us: Are the original observations ot pr. Cook sufficient7"
 Asked natly If he had or had not withdrawn from Dr. Cooks affairs. Mr. Wack said:
 "This is not the time for an an- nouncement. It might be thought had deserted pr. Cook in his need. He may be delirious in . sanitarium or on the ocean unable to defend himself"
 lawyers Friend Talks.
 A close friend of Mir. Wack reiterat- ed, however. that Mir. Wack had long 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. Mir. wack made this contribution:
 'Dr. Cook has disappeared of his own voiition and not by the persuasion of his friends I last heard from him by telephone on Tuesday. November 23. had seen him personally two days be- fore.
 Last night pr. Cooks friend Charles Wake, confessed to me that he had not the faintest idea where the doctor now Is and that he had mol heard from him since November 23.
 My very urgent letters to the doc- tor have remained unanswered, all though they demanded reply from any man soiieitous for his own affairs"
 MT. wack. however. did receive a letter from Mrs. Cook on December 6. dated December and posted Decem- Der 5, in Brooklyn, asking him to dis- continue all expenses on the doctors account and to forward certain papers which Mir wack understood to be affi- davits bearing on the doctors disput- ed ascent of Mount Mckinley. These affidavfts, the doctor had originally in tended to take with him to Europe where they could be available for the University of Copenhagen if desired.
 Others of pr. Cooks friends granted tonight that Captain Loose consulted ls.- n n rooms adjoining his at the Gramatan Inn. Whether this propinautty served as an opportunity for cooperation merely, or for collision, Is point on which not even CaIaain Loose cared to pronounce positively. The captain. however. went freely into his own mo- tives this afternoon.
 T went to Dr. Cook" he said. think ing 1 could help him. A short talk convinced me he was ignorant of some of the essentials of navigation. My task enlarged, but that was no Ques- ton for me to debate so long as I was paid. Now that the payments have ceased and the doctor has disappeared speak out. ' 4 supplied the figures. They were gratefully received. What use wal made of them Is bound to appear"
 Commodore Nevgaard. the explorer, and Prof. olufsen. Secretary of the Danish geographical society. also dis credit the accusations against pr Cook.
 The National Tidende in an editorial says:
 .fIt is natural that calumnies should increase when pr. Cooks papers are on the eve of examination. the object of his accusers being to influence the committee