The New York herald., 1921-12-15
GLICKSTEDN'S SLAYER
Will PLEAD INSANITY
Mrs. Raizen, Who Confessed
Shooting Physician, Is
Quickly Indicted.
COLLAPSES IN COURT
'Compulsive Insanity Is
Talked as Alienist Is
Hired for Defence.
TWICE TRIED SUICIDE
DR.. Tannenbaum Says She
Tn11r U,n, -
TWICE TRIED SUICIDE
DR.. Tannenbaum Says She
Took Treatment to Cure
Desire to Kill.

The accusatory steps or a murder
case were accomplished in Brooklyn
yesterday with exceptional speed. Less
than full day after her arrest Mrs.
Lillian Shaffer Raizen was indicted,
arraigned, held without bail on a
charge of first degree murder. to which
she pleaded not guilty and committed
to Raymond street Jail.
This celerity was made possible by
the undisputed fact of her confession,
given to District Attorney Lewis on
Tuesday evening, that it was she who
killed DR.. Abraham s. Glickstein.
The next step will be motion from
her counsel for the appointment of a
commission to inquire into her sanity.
The District Attorney told the court
yesterday this was to be made in a few
days.
Mrs. Raizen's defence will be that
she was insane when she shot the
doctor. Whether her lawyers will con-
tend she is deranged now they have
not decided
A lunacy commission could pass
the present time. If it found her un-
balanced she would have to be sent
to State institution, there to stay
unless her sanity returned, in which
case she would be returned to Brook
lyn for trial. A person declared by
the proper authorities to be insane
cannot be placed on trial for a crime.
The District Attorney said yesterday
he did not know whether he would op-
pose the appointment of a lunacy com
mission or not; It would depend on what
his medical advisers reported.
The defence already has retained an
alenist--Dr. Edward E. Hicks of Brook
lyn. He saw Mrs. Raizen yesterday,
but attempted no examination. She
tainted in the Distrist Attorneys Office.
CompuIsive Insanity Talked.
The District Attorney himself ex-
pected to ask her many questions and
have her f1l In her statement Of Tues
day with details of DIR. Glickstein's con-
duct toward her and Of her planning
for the shooting. Upon looking at her,
however. he decided to wait a day or
two. when DR.. Hicks and probably an
other alienist will apply their testsb
The phrase "compulsive insanity" al
ready Is being tried out. Mrs. Raizen,
in a talk with reporters yesterday
described herself as having been tor
tured by conflicting urges"
Mrs. Raizen has twice attempted to
take her own life in the last year. ac-
cording to DR.. Samuel A. Tannenbaum
Of 1851 Broadway, nerve specialist. to
whom she went for treatment. He said
last night that six months ago she
turned on the gas In bathroom of her
home, but becoming nauseated and find
ing that too much gas was leaking
through the doors to make the attempt
successful. turned It off again. He also
said her state of mental depression was
accentuated by the death of her mother.
Mrs. J/cob Schaffer, which occurred
about year ago.
DIR. Tannenbaun, who is the editor OF
Psyche aud Eros, magazine of psyche
therapy. said he was not a long time
friend of the Schaffer family. but that
Mrs. Raizen had gone to him for special
treatment.
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