Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1910 — Dr. Cook Don’t Know Whether He Was There or Not. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Cook Don’t Know Whether He Was There or Not.

Dr. Frederick A. Cook is not like Jim Jeffries, Theodore Roosevelt and Eat Nelson. He can come back. He now frankly admits that he may have been mistaken when he came back from the frigid north with the claim that he had reached the north pole. In a remarkable article in Hampton’s magazine, he says he was half mad from the cold and hunger he had endured and while laboring under this distress he set up the claim of discovery. Cook knows he has been called the greatest liar and imposter of all time, but he asks that the public read his plea and have confidence in him. Dr. Cook expects to return to the United States with his wife and children on Dec. 22, so as to spend Christmas here. Dr. Cook is now in Europe and his children are in a convent in France. Captain Robert E. Peary, the explorer, who was the first to pronounce Cook a fakir, has nothing to say about Cook’s magazine article.