Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1909 — Explorer Cook Branded Fraud By Copenhagen Scientists. [ARTICLE]

Explorer Cook Branded Fraud By Copenhagen Scientists.

Dr. Frederick A. Cook, a few weeks ago heralded as the hero of the age, because of his claim at having discovered the north pole, is now pronounced a fraud by the special committee of scientists appointed by the University of Copenhagen to investigate his proofs to the discovery pf the north pole. They shattered his claims completely and contemptously pronounced him a faker. Cook is in hiding, which the committee says is the sign of a guilty conscience. Knud Rasmussen, who had been one of Cook’s most faithful friends, was a member of the committee and endorsed the findings. Possibly Cook believes that’ “it was better to have claimed and lost than never to have claimed at all." He made a short but money making lecture tour.