Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-01
PERRY OUTLINES
COOK INDICT MENT
COMMANDER TELLS WHY HE SAYS
DOCTOR DID NOT REACH
NORTH POLE. {
BASED ON FOURTEEN POINTS.
One Is That Discoverer Did Not Open
Cairns at Places He Passed
En- Route
BASED ON FOURTEEN POINTS.
LONG DISTANCES ARE DOUBTED.

BAR HARBOR, Me, Sept 20
! From Robert L. Peary Il reporter for
| New York paper obtained a forecast of
| the indictment he and Gen. Thomas Hub
I bard will draw against Dr. Frederick
! a. Cook in the north pole case.
! MIR. Peary's statement will embrace the
technical points on which he hopes to
/ dlsprove all DIR. Cooks claims.
! 1t will be submitted as proof not only
! that DR.. Cook was not at the pole, but
! that Mr.. Peary himself is the only one
| entitled to be called the discoverer of the
| goal that has been sought for three cen
/ turtles.
| Mr.. Peary's Charges.
| There are fourteen points raised by
| Mr.. Peary, and as outlined by him are
as follows:
First. That Mr.. Peary and Matt Henson
| either individually or together talked with
! every member of the Smith Sound tribe of
! EskimOS and obtained testimony that cor
roborates shat of ETuck-A-Shoe and APPEL
| Lab, the ESkimoS, who accompanied DR..
Cook that DR.. Cook had not been out OF
! sight of land.
! Second. That in violation of a custom OF
J Arctic exploration, DR.. Cook has not brought
! back records left in cairns at points he as
| sertS he had reached, notably the left at
Cape Thomas Hubbard in 1906 by Mr..
| Peary.
Third. That Dr. Cooks story that he
travelled from Annootok to the pole and
! then back to Jones' Sound, distance OF
more than twenty-five and one-half degrees,
| or about seventeen hundred miles, in one
| sledging season is impossible. He points
! out that this is more than twice the best
| Peary's best record this year of IA degrees
| Fourth; That his genera! equipment was
| such that it would be physical impoSsibility
to have accomplished the feat
| Equipment Carried
| Fifth. That Dr. Cook maintains he car
| red a glass mercurial horizon his trip
| of seventeen hundred miles, whereas Mr..
Peary used a cast iron horizon so that it
| would not only be saved from being broken
but could be heated when the mercury
| froze. This is necessary sometimes, Mr..
minus So Cook reports finding it as cold
as minus 10 degrees.
Sixth; That Prof. Marvin brought back
| from S6.3S duplicate records of Mr.. Peary's
march and of his own to prove absolutely
| that Mr.. Peary reached that latitude
Seventh. That Capt Bartlett brought
back from S7:4S duplicate records of Mr.
Pearys march and of his own to prove
| absolutely that Mr.. Peary reached that
! latitude.
j Eighth That the sledge of DIR. Cooks
! was of such a type. not built on the lines of
! any arctic explorers sledge, that it could
not possibly have lasted for march of a
day with a standard load of five or six
Ninth. That Dr. Cooks snow shoes were
| of an impracticable type for use i'll the
| Arctic and were not the kind that would
| conduce to speed.
The Whitney Case.
Tenth. That DR.. Cooks leaving of his
| records at Etah was scheme his part
by which he could claim they were lost or
/ destroyed and so could escape being forced
| to produce them to SubStantiate his claims.
Eleventh. That no man who had carried
the American flag to the pole would leave
such d slight and easily transported article
in the charge of perfect stranger.
Twelfth. That Dr.. Cook did have fresh
DOG teams from Etah and could have car
ried his burdens to Upernayik.
Thirteenth. That when Harry Whitney
went on board the Jeanne he did not take
time to go back to Etah and get the articles
he must have known were valuable to Dr'
Cook.
Fourteenth. That if DR.. Cook did leave
such priceless articles at the Eskimo village
Mr.. Whitney would have been anxious to
have rushed them to the United States
This summary of the lines upon which
| the fight will be made was obtained from
Mr.. Peary on board the train while he
was on his way to Eagle Island, his sum
| mer home.