New-York tribune., 1921-12-14
Mrs. Lillian Raizen Con-
fesses She Shot Doctor
After Brooding Months
Over Old Love Affair
Sobs as She Tells
OF Her Revenge
Widow Declares She
Reared Woman Who
Killed Her Husband ; In
sanity Plea May Be Made

Mrs. Lillian Schaffer Raizen, twenty
rire years DID, six-months' bride of
Charles S. Raizen. q Brooklyn toy
manufacturer, confessed to District
Attorney Lewis at 6 o'clock last night
that she shot and killed DR.. Abraham
l. Glickstein in his office at 5S5 Bed
ford Avenue, last Saturday evening.
She blamed her memory of past,
in which she said Dr.. Glickstein had
been sinister figure, for the act which
NAV send her to the electric chair
unless her attorneys can prove that
she was insane when she committed
il. This, they indicated last night,
they proposed TO attempt.
Mrs. Raizen was surrendered by her
attorney, Benjamin Reass, of the firm
oi Hirsh, Newman g. Reass, 100 Broad
way, Manhattan, who for years has
been counsel for her father, Jacob
Schaifer. president of the Schaffer Tin
ware Manufacturing Company, of
Brooklyn, and by Aaron William Levy,
Of 50 Wall Street, counsel for her hus-
band.
It was said after she had been sent
to cell in the Gates Avenue police
station that detectives under Captain
Daniel Carey; of the Clymer Street
station, had been close on her trail
since Monday night and that her ar
rest, had she not given herself up,
would have been only a matter of
hours.
Tells How She Shot Man
With the same calmness, which
marked her entrance to the home of
Dr.. Glckstein and her departure after
she had put bullet through his heart,
Mrs. Raizen sat in the Office of the
District Attorney and told her story.
Only when she came to the point of
tie actual shooting did her Uofnposure
break. She sobbed when she told how
3he had pulled the trigger of the re-
Wlssr twice before a cartridge eX
ploded
Dr. Glickstein had been physician to
The Schatfer family since Lillian was
child, and in later years the Schaffers
and the Glicksteins were fast friends
II was knowledge of this friendship
which put Captain Carey's men on the
trail of Mrs. Raizen.
Eight years ago, Mrs. Raizen told
District Attorney Lewis, Dr. Glicksteln
persuaded her that he loved her. They
became intimate, she said. She tried
from time to time, she said, to put him
out of her life, but without success.
At last, when she became engaged to
Razen who had been her childhood
Il ha Nod found
happiness that would submerge her
past and she bent her energies to pre-
pairing for the wedding.
Three weeks before the wedding day,
she declared, DR.. Glickstein teiephoned
her and told her he must see her at
Bis Office on important business.
Thinking he had come to the point of
apology for his conduct, she went to
see him. There was a scene in his
Office, she said, when he tried forcibly
70 detain her.
Told Husband of Past
On her honeymoon, according to her
story she told her husband all that
had happened He forgave her and
iEey returned to New York to take up
their residence temporarily with her
parents at 814 Avenue w. For three
menths they lived in happiness. Then
MS. Raizen's health began to fail and
sae consulted Manhattan neurologist,
VINO advised that she go South for a
rest. On November Is she went to
uaytona, Fla, and from there to jack
gsonvllle. while her husband went to
ase at the Hotel Bossert, Brooklyn.
Despite the change of climate and
seehe, the young woman could not put
vat Of her mind. she declared, the
peeter Of Dr.. Glickstein and the fear
nat somehow what had gone on be-
sseen them might become known to
yer yer friends. She was tempted to self
aMs:struction, but, thinking better of
.als. resolved to kill the man she de-
s'sred sd had betrayed her.
became obsessed with the idea. "
sse said, "that must destroy the man
aao destroyed me. I got man in
s.sa.cssonville to buy pistol for me,
@'aAihg that if looked at it long
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