Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-12-10
TWO MEN SWEAR THEY
FABRICATED RE CORDS
Navigator ard Broker Say Brooklyn
Explorer Employed Them to Pre-
pare Astronomical Data After His
Return from Arctic REGIONS
Copenhagen only Amused.
(By Associated Press.)


A. Cooks personal lawyer. henry
Wellington Wack, has severed rela-
tons with his client.
Mr.. Wsck refused tonight to cen
firm or deny his withdrawal, but II
can be affirmed on competent author
ity, that after consultation with mis-
partners, Mr.. Wack wrote DR.. COOK
must beg him TO seek legal advice
elsewhere.
Il haven't the remotesC idea" SAID
Mr.. Wack tonight, where Dr. Cook
is keeping himself CT why he persists
in seclusion when his presence is vital
TO his own interests and his friends.
Percnally l incline to the belief he
is abeoad.
Agree on Cardinal Facts.
One thing, however, Is certain
there Is an agreement tonight for
the first time among those who have
always believed that Dr. Cock ais
covered the north pole, those who
have never believed and those VINO
have waited TO be informed on disin-
-terested authority. Partisans and
skeptics alike now concede certain
cardinal facts which admit OF no ar
gument. namely: DR.. Cook has sent
his records 10 the University or
Copenhagen for this inspection of a
commission. Two men-one a trcker
who says he acted as go-between
ard one a skilled nav.gatCr-have
sworn that they supplied the doctor
with a complete set OF fabricated CD
servations, covering his trip north
ward step by step to the pole IN
agreement with his narrative as uni
versally published. The sowrn state
ments carry within themselves their
own proof or disproof.
That is to say, if the papers now
in the hands of the University OF
Copenhagen contain any considerable
portion Of the boreal observations
which Captain August Loose says he
worked out By the reverse route no
farther north than the Grsmmatan
Inn, in Bronxville, ~ j.. the deduction
Is that DR.. Cock felt no confidence n
the adequacy Of his own proofs.
II. on the contrary, the Copenhagen
records show that DR.. Cook made no
evident use of the calculations Cap
tain Loose says he supplied it would
be fair to assume that he accepted
them only as checks en- his own data.
The inquiry viii then revert 10 Its
6rst Status: Are the original OBJ
servaticns Of DIT. Cook sufficient
No Time for Announcement.
Asked fatty II he had or had not
Withdrawn from TT. Cooks affair, MI.
Wsck said: This is net the time
for an announcement Il might pc
thought I had deserted DR.. Cook in
his need. He may be delirsors in a
ssDitsrium. OF on the ocean unable
70 defend himself"
A close fried OF Mr. wack reiterat-
cd. however. that Mr. Wack had long
ago dec ded to close dealing with a
client who did not keep his counsel
Informed CT his intentions CT move
ments.
Tc this phase CT the situation Mr..
Wack made this contribution:
III tOChs ne sag 0dS 0lndp-
pcared Of lis ovn yolision and not Big
the suasion Of his friends. last
heard from him by telephone on Tues
dsy. November q. had seen him
personally two days before.
Last night Dr. Cooks friend.
Charles Walk. confessed 10 me that
nc had net the faintest idea where
the doctor nov IS and tina: be had not
heard from him since Tuesday. No
vemtcT q.
NY very Urgent letters TO the dcc-
ter have remained unanswered. al
though they demanded a reply from
any man solscitous for bis own az
fairs"
Letter frcn, Mrs. Cock.
NJ Wack. however. cid receive .
letter from Irs. Cook on December
s. dated December 4. and posted Dc
cembcT : in Brooklyn. asking him 70
dlsccntinue al expenses on the doc
.cr's account. and 70 forward certain
rspe-s which Nr. weck understood
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