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...shot the white man Marvin," ran the confession of Eskimo, Kudlooktoo. "Seventeen years ago I shot him to save the life of my friend Inuhitsoq. Now I am a Christian. I have just learned to be a Christian. I confess...
...Kudtooktoo's confession, shuffled off. He was a fool to confess, they thought. Except-what did it matter? The white man Marvin was dead, and the white man Peary who had brought him to the Arctic does not come to Greenland any more. What did it matter if Kudlooktoo had learned to be a Christian and confessed...
Legal authorities expressed the opinion that action cannot be taken against Kudlooktoo because the murder was committed "on the high seas" (in this case frozen into ice) in a portion of the world over which no court held jurisdiction at the time the murder was committed. None the less the U. S. State Department requested the Government of Denmark, to which Greenland now appertains, to "investigate" the slaying of the trusted aid of heroic Admiral Peary...
Loquacious, Kudlooktoo confessed not only to his tribe but (previously) to the missionary who converted him, Jens Olsen. Danish Jens Olsen naturally considered that after Kudlooktoo's public confession no secrecy attached to what he had confessed in private. Soon famed Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen knew all about it. He told Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society in New York. For a year and more the secret has been leaking out among explorers that Professor Ross G. Marvin of Cornell, one of Admiral Peary's most trusted Arctic lieutenants, was murdered by the Eskimo Kudlooktoo...
They read that Eskimo Kudlooktoo and his friend Eskimo Inukitsoq (nicknamed "Harrigan") were returning on April 10, 1909 with Professor Marvin from an expedition supporting Peary's dash for the Pole. According to Kudlooktoo, Marvin suddenly "sordlo ilisimajungnaersimasok" ["was like a sane man who for the moment was without the use of his faculties"]. Marvin, Kudlooktoo alleges, ordered Inukitsoq to get off the dog sledge, and proposed to leave him on the ice to die without food-all for no apparent reason. Kudlooktoo thereupon shot Marvin with a rifle, to save Inukitsoq, and the two Eskimos returned to Peary...