Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-01
WANTS C0UNI RYMtN 10
BELIEVE HIM SINCERE
Discsedited Brooklyn Explorer IS
Coming Back to America After
Magazine Has Published Article
Purportino 10 Tell True Story as
Far as Possible.

in iiampton's Magazine. confcsse-
that he docs not know whether he
reached the North Pole or not.
Dr. Cook. who has been in hiding
for over year. has Informed the
editors CT The magazine publishing
his story that he will return TO the
United States with his wife and chill
dren Dec. %. in order 10 spend Chris I
mas here.
pr. Cook in hi story deals with the
usvcholoey of his adventure ana
says: Did | get 10 the North Pole .
Perhaps made mistake in thinking
I did. Perhaps did not not make
n mistake.
"After mature thought ! confess
that don't know absolutely whether
| reac he'd the Pole or not. This may
come as an amazing state ment. but
am willing 10 startle the world -
nv doing so. can got an opportun;ts
10 present my case.
SAYS He Was Half Mad.
by my case | mean not my case
A. a geographical di .coverer. but nv
case as q nan. Much as the attain
rept OF the North Pole oSce meant
10 nc. the sympathy and confidence
Of my fellow-men mean more.
Fully. freely and frankly shall
tell YOU everything. TeN you every
fhiny-and leave the decision to you.
II after reading my story you say !:
Cook is sincere and honest; hair
erazed by months of ISOLATION ana
hunger. he believed that he reached
The Pole: he is not a fakir. then !
shall be satisfied"
DIR. Cook tells the story of his lie
and pictures what he calls the over
powerkng ambition for exploration
that bcset him until it finally culmi'
mated in his effort to reach The Poie'
DIR. Cook declares that at the time
he con .inced himself that he had DIS
covered the Pole he was haii-inau.
lie spent two years in his quest ana
during that tine endured hunger ana
urivation. that he says. would uhDai-
ance any mind.
Arctic Region Of Insanity.
The explorer states that it would
he impossible for any man to demon
state beyond que..tion that ne haa
bc-u TO the North Pole HE charac
tcrizes the region as region oil IN
sanity. where one cannot believe the
evidences gathered by ones own
eyes.
He saws that he had always looked
unon The discovery of the Pole as an
achievement for his own pc.~onal sat
icfaction. for the satisfaction OF a
craving desire that was greater than
any other factor in his life.
When he found how TREMENDOUS =
sensation his statement that ne hao
attained the Pole created. he was
overcome with bewilderment-
Dr. Cook then tells the story OF int
DAYS i'm Copenhagen and later In New
York and of the crisis in his life tha'
led 10 his fight from New York, ana
his voluntary exile from the Cnitcc
States.
Children Gre In Convent.
Tho explorer SAYS that notwitD,
e,,ndinc the fact that he was followed
nv the shrcwtest new. paper men W
the world day after dav, ano ths'
Suns ranging up TO several thousauu
If dollars were offered for clue 'o
his Whereabouts. he has never WORT
a disguise and has never taken an'
unusual precaE;iOn to conceai NJ
i'nntiil.
PART OF the Tine. he saws. his vic
has bcen with him and part oI M
,;p,e his childrcn DIR. Cook ana ~
80 are row in Eurcpe anf the chr
5-,, are nov in a convent in France
Ncet of The time during his eNhe
Dr. Cook has been In LONDON h'
avs hat he has gone about snons
Americans there with the utmos'
freedom and at times has registered
,,,ser his own NAVE. and TIA; oni'
At, se-~ ,sve guessed his ifentitv-
with the onDortunities for fhou~h
that his exile has given hi1'-O'
Cook say he never even had tine
N slec. rorc than three or toul
hours nefween his arrival At Conen
,-~en eud his disspDe arance IN New
york-he has found growing stronger
~-d stronger the desire ~ return =
fss own country. to he understood o'
his o~n neoDie.
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