The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-30
In First of Magazine Artjcl
Confesses That He Does
Not Know "
OPINION OF PEOPLE
NOW WORTH MORN
THAN DISCOVER
Willing to Startle World # n
So Doing He May Be ADle Z
to State His Case ann
Get Hearing Of Public

NEW 1ohh, fNuts 0o.---AS&s HllS1!.
erick A. Cook has confessed. Il
announcement was made te-dn
Benjamin a. Hampton. editor
magazine thar paid $4,000 1Or
mander Peary's story of IT.
the North Pole.
In his ''oWn story. tn H.
stallmcnt on which viii 49,
the January number OF the g.
DR.. Cook frankly admits that
not know whether he reach
North Pole. 2k4
In the opAning article. dea1lng
ticuiarly with the psycholc9y
adventure. the man who 49,
alternately lauded as the greaeo
plorer and denounced a. th&
colossal fakir Of the Ags, sAyy: X
Did ] get to tina North P0tez
haps l made a mistake In tMa1
] did Perhaps l did not M1
mistake. After mature them
confess that do not know Ana
ly whether ! reached tho pol M
may come az an amazing $1,000
but / am willing to startle the
IL by 50 doing ] can get ~
tpntty To present my case ~ -
case I mean not my case ~ 4 Ia
graphical discoverer. but my 0e
a man. Much as the attatngAe44
the North Pole onc0 meant &0$s
the sympathy and condolences "A
! feliow-men mean more.
Fully. freely and frankiy
| tell everything leave a.
with you. II. after reading M
you say. Cook II sincere ana 14
half -craxed by months ~ Mql
T. - tee
reached the pole: he fs not = - q
then / shall be satisfied. xEs]
says He Was Half Md.
Or. Cook tells his HE STORY
pictures the overpowertng -
| for exploration that beset MIN
/. finally it eliminated in hin ASHu
reach the pole. He declares
| the time he convinced h3nnxNf
| he had discovered the p0le
! half mad. He spent tN0 qM
| half years In his quest and
| that period endured hunger a1
walton that. he says. would unl
!, any mind. aHs
! Dr. Cook declares that IL w6n1
! impossible for any man 10 0N
! strate that he had been to tAGE
/ Pole. He eharacterizes. the f4Ha
as a region of insanity. whAx
! cannot believe the evidences 9m
by ones own Aye. - S&2
He rays that ne had always
| upon the discovery " the p01M
| achievement for his own pern0
| isfaction--for the satisfnckto
craving and desire that w.
| than any other factor m &
When he found how fema
sensation his statement thak
attained the pole created
! overcome with bewildernenkS
His study OF his own psycaS
described by those who h1
his narrative AZ q .swonderfnI
descriptive writing. 8 NSs5
Has Not Used I1iaG1n
One OF the most reIuAf11a1
brought out by his story
al, the time he has been 9Sv1
the shrewdest newspaper n16
world on his trail, with n6(
! offering sums that ranoA
thousands for the Allg11t6
news Of his whereahuut
never worn = disguise anA
taken any unusual precA0tf
ceal his identity. s2S}
Part OF the time his Nix1
with him. and part Of t1G9M
gultuIeil lop. AEs ENkt&HX4&M2
J In retreat in France aM2
and his wife are In Enrnps
the time during his exile h
in London. He han 9U1x SS
Americans there with tIAS
freedom and 1T times hAa
under his own name. IN S&
Only a few have gIS1a1
tity although there pfQ&&1
has been man Whouo DN)I
have been so widely aslA
ed. Even those who ~
identity Of thu exile wo1
with ease by the feyAa11
used every time nny
he looked like Dr. Cool
] before
with the oppostnniey
that hts exile has g1y&x1
he never even had flNnGS1[
than three or four hoH94
tween his arrival n EN1
hts dts1 DpAArance ffea
he has found GroNin0
| stronger the desire ri
own country to ~ m
countryInen. He rqn3yN1<
any me else the est4e S
was held.
AsAai'eA - lc
II HAYS been ca1)el
i liar tin the World
. mental impC6tEx I'M
/ Ia starting Hin st0ryt9s
In very Nndoolk1
unique. The Oh5eck I'M
! ton ana susplrto1
s few mem e 81 90 a3E&
!. II was this -
I Cook 10 work