The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-30
DR.F.A. COOK DROPS
FROM PUBLIC VIEW
Slips Quietly and Mystic
riously Away
HIS FRIENDS ARE PUZZLED
Confidcs His Secret to Only One Man
and Perhaps His Wife-Creates a
More Acrimonious Debate Than
That Which Followed His An
nouncement of His Discovery Of the
Pole-Thrcatened With Nervous
Breakdown.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
New York. Nov. Il Frederick
A. Cook dropped completely from
public view today. Not even John
r. Bradley, whose money was behind
his polar expedition, knows where he
is tonight. Confiding his secret to
only one man and perhaps to his wife,
the Brooklyn explorer slipped quietly
and mysterio2sly away leaving behind
him a string Of puzzled and exasper-
ated friends, and a debate more
acrimonious than thu which followed
his announcement of September last
that he had discovered the North
Pole IA April q, 1908.
Charles Wake, an insurance man of
this city, appears to be the only one
who knows the mystery of DR.. Cooks
whereabouts. And Wake is firm in
his resolve to keep his lips sealed until
Cook himself sees fit to take the pub
lie into his confidence.
In the concern is ex-
pressed over the condition Of DR..
Cooks health. Although some Of his
friends maintain that he has borne
up we'll under the continued strain of
IScLuIluS anu preparing his Odld, dS
oppose to this an intimate associate
Of the doctor said tonight that the ex-
plorer appeared to be on the verge of
a nervous when he con-
ferred with him at his hotel in the
Bronx IN Monday night last. This
friend, who is a newspaper man, is
sued a statement tonight in which he
quoted DR.. Cook as saying: If this
thing keeps up a few months longer,
/ will be in the insane asylum
The puzzle of DR.. Cooks disappear
ance from public view began about
3 o'clock this afternoon. At noon
Henry Wellington Wack, his personal
counsel, issued a formal statement ex-
planning that DIR. Cook had sailed this
morning on the Cunard liner Caronla.
Three hours later he issued a second
statement, withdrawing the first state
ment and explaining that he had been
informed by John r.. Bradley that the
doctor had not sailed on the Caronia-
Coincident with this, reports were cir
culated that Cook had sailed on the
steamship Havana Neither. so far
as can be learned tonight. was cor
rect.
Mr.. Wake, in admitting that he
knows where DR.. Cook is, declined to
give his address. or to cccunt in any
way for the Doctors sudden and mys-
FERROUS departure. Said Mr.. Wake:
I'm the circumstances, he is at per-
feet liberty to make what plans he
chooses. In due time he will give ac-
count of himself, and until then I
hope that he gets the rest he thor
oughly deserves"
John r. Bradley, who is thoroughly
exasperated with the who'll situation,
had this to say tonight:
81 am heartily sick Of all this mys-
terry. DR.. Cook is under 10 contract
to me-"
Il still believe in him. My stand
- .-k - Sc 20 tho dow
he landed. He has my allegiance
until the University Of Copenhagen
has disproved his claims"
Cooks lawyer, Wack, issued a third
statement tonight in which he reviews
the conflicting reports Of the day,
and winds M with the statement that
Il am forced to the conclusion that
DR.. Cook ISN'T"