COOK OF THE NORTH POLE
IN A'POLICE CELL AT RANGOON.
By Telegraph—Press Assooiatlon-OopyrlgW
New York, October 1,
An American named Curtis Allen, who has ; arrived at San : Francisco, that Dr. F. A. Cook, the alleged discoverer of .tho North Pole, was arrested and imprisoned at Rangoon. Mrj Allen; alleges that ho shared a cell with Dr. ,Cook. The British authorities believed him (Allen) to be a German, acting in conjunction with Cook, and.threatened to hang. him.
[Dr. ,F. A. Cook startled the whole world some ago, by announcing —and convincing quite a largo body of opinion in the scientific world—that lie had discovered the North. Pole. He was denounced by Peary,' who arrived back from his Arctic expedition not very long after with indisputable proofs of the success of the Peary expedition. To use Peary's own'words, .quoting'from' the message which ho (lashed before his arrival in port, ho "had : Cook nailed." Cook soon after, disappeared from mortal ken, his name cropping np fiom time to time to \i hot the. public's curiosity as to his present mode of existence, whlnh seoins .to he a, ,kiyA nf Ujihmsrsed fieslusion-J . • .
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2584, 5 October 1915, Page 8
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188COOK OF THE NORTH POLE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2584, 5 October 1915, Page 8
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