The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21
IN COOKS BOOK
 HE WILL ALLECE
 A CONSPIRACY
Doctor Asserts That He Refused to Use Talked Observations
 Offered to Him For Money

August 9th, 1911, has just been made
 public from Capt. Evelyn B.. Baldwin,
 the we'll known Arctic explorer, in
 which MT. Baldwin declares that the
 faked astronomical observations which
 it was charged were embodied in. the
 report which pr. Cook sent to Co., penhagen, are in the hands of Pro-
 lessor James H. Gore, one of MT.
 Peary's personal frieneds. and a prom
 inent member of the National Geo
 graphic Society. M
 " According to the affidavit made by
 Dunkle and Loose, and which was
 published in the New York Times st
 the climax of the Polar controversy,
 it was charged that Dr. Cook hired
 these two men to manufacture faked
 figures for him. According to their
 own testimony, these figures were
 sent to Copenhagen. In his book.
 pr. Cook will present, for the first
 time a. detailed explanation of his re-
 lations with Dunkle and Loose. Dun
 kle was brought to him, pr. Cook
 declares, by MT. Bradley, on the pre-
 He gained a measure of pr. Cooks
 confidence by professing sympathy
 with him, and later brought Loose 10
 the Gramatan Inn, saying that Loose
 was an expert navigator. Dr. Cook
 says Pretending a knowledge of the
 situation in Europe, Loose told me
 the Danes were becoming impatient.
 I replied that was busy preparing
 my report. Something ought to be
 done in the mcantime,' he said. Now, T have connections with some of the
 Scandinavian papers, and think some
 friendly articles in the meantime
 would allay this unrest.
 idoo eoorood raq CnU9hla. any,
 thing that would help me was well
 come, and I told Loose, if he want
 ed to, that he might go ahead. He
 visited me several times, and broach-
 ed the subject of the possible out
 come of the Copenhagen verdict. By this time I felt fairly friendly with him. Finally he brought me several articles. They seemed weak and ir- relevant. Lonsdale, my secretary.
 read them ,said there was not much in them, but that they might help.
 Loose mailed the articles-or said he did. Then, to my amaZemeht, he made the audacious suggestion that let him go over my material. fiatly refused.
 "He pointed out, what myself had beeen thinking about, that all obser- vations were subject to extreme fnac~ Fcuracy. He suggested his working mine out backward to verify them. As I regarded him as an experienced navigator, [ thought this of interest. was not a navigator, and, moreover, had no chance of checking my fig ures So, desiring an independent mans methods might satisfy my doubts, told him to go ahead using the figures published in my story in the New York Herald.
 At the time I told him to pur-
 chase for me a 'Bowditch Navigator, which I lacked, and any other alma macs and charts he needed for him self He came out to the Gramatan to live Arrangements for his stay had been made by Dunkle-under the name of Lewis, I have been told since but I knew nothing of this at the time I gave Loose $250, which was to compensate him in full for the ar struck me that he was taking an un- necessarily long stime to finish his work of checking my calculations. Late one night, returning from the citiy, I went to his room. Dunkle was there. Papers were strewn all "'WeH,' said Loose, T think we have this thing all fixed up.'
 ..Dunkle, smooth-tongued and friendly as ever, said, Now, Doctor, want to advise you to put your own observations aside. Send these to
 
 q looked up, amazed, incredulous I felt stunned for the moment, and said little. I then took the trouble to look over all the papers carefully There was a full set of faked obser- vations The examination took me an hour. During that time DunkIe and Loose were talking in low tone. l did not hear what they said I saw at once the game the rascals had | beeen playing. The insinuation of their nefarious suggestion for the mo- ment cleared my mind, and a dull an- ger filled me.
 Gentlemen said, pack up ev- cry scrap of this paper in that dress suit case. Take all of your belong ings and leave this hotel at once 'I stood there while they did So Not a word was spoken. Sheepish and silent, they shuffled from the room ashamed and taken aback. Sick at heart at the thought that these men should have considered me unscrupu- | lous enough to buy and use their faked figures. I went to my room From that day-November 22-I have not received a letter or telegram from either." "A
 | pr. Cook further declares that he believes the affidavit published in the | Times was a forgery. eff my reports. " says pr. Cook, "to the Copenhagen University proved anything, it was by comparison, figure by figure, with the affidavits published, that in this at least I was guilty of no fraud. Tn a re-examination later, a handwrit- | ing expert has come to the concIu- l sion that the name of Loose was forg-