The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-12-03
Dl. COOK DISCOVERED.
AMAzlNG ANNIyNCEMENT MADE
ny AReTIo ExPLoRER.
May be startling, IIe/
But Willing TO startIe Wor q
Can Get Opportunity . knt
Case and Regain sy - and
Confidenoe of HisfT = >hfen.

--L ~ .S[9 4
New york. Nov. - Old i eet 70
the North Poie2 APPS I made a
mistake i'm tb. y chat ! did. Per-
hhaps 4 do n e mistake. After
mature 10 n confess that ! do
not know a. Ately whether + reach
ed the Pole or not This may come
as am amazing statement, but / am
willing TO 5startle the world. If by SO
doing, ! can get an opportunity to
presenf my ease. BY my case 1 mean
not my case as a geographical dis Z
'covereE but my case as a man. Much
as the attainment Of the North Pole
once meant to me, the sympathy and
eonidence OF my fellow men mean
more.s
In this way DR.. Frederick Al Cook.
the Brooklyn explorer. in an article.
which will be Published in Hanpton,s
Magazine, confesses that he does not
know whether he reached the North
Pole or not. The publishers OF the
III
article issued a statement tonight.
saying that nowhere in his narrative
does DR. Cook either cast any reffee-
tion on Peary or question Peary's
claims Dr. Cook, who has been in
hiding for over a year. has informed
the editors of the magazine publish
ing the story that he viii return to
the United States with his wife and
children December 22, in order to.
spend Christmas here
Continuing, DR.. Cook says.
Fully, freely and frankly shall
tell you everything. Tell you every
thing--and leave the decision with
YOU. II, after reading my story. you
say Cook is sincere and honest; half
crazed by months of isolation and
hunger, he believed he reached the
Polei he is not a fakir;' then / shall
1be satisheds,a 4.
Dr Cock tens. the stefps "A his lifes
ana bsctufes wAat he calls the oyeS,-
powering ambition for exploration,
until 1t finally eliminated in his eff
fort to reach the Pole DIR. Cook de-
clares that, at the time he convinced
himself that he discovered the Pole
he was half mad. He spent two years
In his quest and during that time en-
dured hunger and privation that, he
says, would unbalance any mind.
DR.. Cook says that it would be i'm
possible for any man to demonstrate
beyond question that he had been
to the North Pole. He characterizes
the region as a region Of insanity.
where one cannot believe the evil
dences gathered before ones eyes.
/ have been called the greatest
llar in the world, the most monu-
mental imposter in history" saws Dr.
Cook. u believe that in every unde-
slrable way ! stand unique the object
or such suspicion and vituperation as
Rave assailed few men,"
With this realization. DR.. Cook
wrote his story and says that to him
the honor of discovering the North
Pole no longer means anything. The
explorer has been working on his
story since last August, and saws. ac-
cording to the editor of Hampton's
Magazine, that his sole desire is TO
make the people of the United States
realize just what he went through
during his two and a half years in the
Arctic fastnesS, and II make tnam
see what processes of thinking-or
lack of thinting-it was that led him
to do the thing, which confirmed to
the average mind the worst suspic-
i'ns against him"
Dr. Cook then tells tie story of
the days in Copenhagen and Iarer in
NNeN York, and of the crisis in his
HE that led To his flight from New
York and his voluntary exile from
the United States
DIR. Cook and his wife are now in
Europe and the children are now in
a convent in France Most Of the
time during his exile DR.. Cook has
been in London