The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-12-10
NEW YORK LAWYER WHO
SERVED ARCTIC EXPLORER
BELIEVES HIM ABROAD.
NOT ANSWERED
Counsel, and That Is That Cook Sent
His Records to Copenhagen-Asked
by Missing Mans Wife to Discon-
tinue All Expense-LooSe Talks.
New York, Dec. 9.-Dr Frederick

New York, Dec. 9.-Dr. Frederick
a. Cooks personal lawyer. Henry
kvelIing Wack. has severed relations
with his client. Mr.. Wack refused to-
blight TO confirm or deny his with
irawal but il can be affirmed ON
competent authority that. after con-
sultaton with his partners, MIR. Wack
wrote DIR. Cook so long ago as No
vcmber so that he must beg him to
seek legal advice elsewhere.
Il have not the remotesr idea" said
Mr.. Wack tonight, where DR.. Cook
is keeping himself. or why he per-
sists in seclnsion when his presence is
vital to his own interests and his
friends. | read that he is in Brook
lyn. in ii sanitarium i'm Maine. in n
Philadelphia asylum. but personally
incline to the belief that he is abroad.
One thing, however. is certain
there is agreement tonight for
the first time among those who
have always believed that DIR. Cook
discovered the north pole. those who
have never believed and those who
have waited to be informed on dis
interested authority. Partsians and
.keptics alike now concede facts which
admit of no arguments. namely: DR..
Cook has sent his records To the Uni
versity of Copenhagen for the inspoc-
tion OF "A commission.
Two men-ane broker who says
he acted as go-6etween. and one a
skilled navigator-haSe sworn that
they supplied the doctor with il COM
rlete set of Fabricated observations.
covering his trip northward, step by
step. to the pole i'm agreement with
his narrative as originally published
These sworn statements carry within
themselves their own proof or dis
proof.
ouestionSof Proof.
That is to say. If the papers now
in the hands of the University nf Co.
penhasen contain any considerable
portion of the boreal observations
which Captain August Loose says he
worked out by the reverse route no
further north than the Gramatan inn
N RronNviile. y. Y. the deduction
: that DIR. Cook felt no confidence i'm
the adequacy of his own proofs III,
On the contrary, the Copenhagen rec
srds show that DIR. Cook made no eyi-
lent Use of the calculations Captain
.oose says he supplied. it will be fair
10 assume that he accepted them only
= checks on his own data. The in
auiry will then revert to its first
status: Are the original observations
pf Dr. Cook sufficient"
Asked fatty If he had or had not
withdrawn from DIR. Cooks affairs.
MIR. Wack said:
This Is not the time for an an
nnuncemcnt. Ii might he thought 4
had deserted DIR. Cook In his need
He may be delirions in sanitarium
pr on the ocean unable to defend him
self"
\ close friend OF Mr.. wack.s re-
terated. however. that AIR. wack had
ans ago decided To close dealings with
client who did not keep his counse,
Informed of his intentions or move
nents. To this phase nj the s.,na-
ion. Mr Wack made this contrihu-
lion:
DIR. Cook has disappeared of his
awn volitian and not by the suasion Of
lis friends. last heard from him by tel
phone on Tuesday, November %. ri
iad seen him personally two days
before. Last night DIR. Cooks friend,
'hafles Wake. confessed 10 me that
ie had not the faintest idea where
he doctor now is and that he had not
heard from him since Tuesday, No
Ecmber %
Letters Unanswered.
My recent letters 10 the doctor have
remained unanswered. although they
demanded a reply from any man so-
icitous for his own affairs
Mr.. Naek received a letter from
Mrs Cook an nacan,har 4 a.ra5 n.