Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-15
SAY WOMAN HAD
MURDER COMPLEX
Psycho-AnaIysis Enters Into
Case Of Mrs. Raizen, Who
Killed Giickstein
ne SUGGESTED oBSESSloN

ANV" hVths lftCs tOs--gulHNS hN th'
calm and complacency which marked
her bearing when she surrendered, Mrs
Charles s. Raizen, confessed slayer Of
Abraham Glickstein, the Brooklyn
physician, entered Raymond street jail
last evening under formal charge oi
murder in the first degree.
She was nervous. remorseful, broken
and was so weak from series OF
weeping and semi .fninting spells
throughout the day that she had to be
Supported by women attendants as she
was conducted 10 her cell. A special
guard was placed on duty outside the
bars 70 that she might he under con :
stant observation.
There she must remain until the be =
ginning of her trial--if there Is a trial.
That il a matter OF uncertainty. II may
be that her lawyers, Aaron W. Levy
and BENJAMIN Reass, will apply to the
Kings County Court for a commission
In lunacy to examine her, and that the
commission, IL II finds her mentally un. q.
balanced. will advise her committal to
an Institution for the insane. The at
tofneys will decide within a day or two
whether to go to trial, using insanity
ss their defense.
Favor Appeal TO Jury
This latter course Is the more likely
since they believe firmly TINT Il jury
hearing ner story and hearing Of her
condition drought about, she says.
by DIR. GickStrin's maltreatmentl
would promptly find her not guilty on
sccount Of mental irrcsponsibility.
The trial il one is had. promises to
be ultra modern in some of It's aspects.
for the up to date science OF psyche.
An xgtu xr,lIl -, anil fhn
theories and pron0unCcments Of tho
celebrated DR.. Freund. of Vienna, will
be advanced in argument as to Mrs.
Raisens called brain arrangement.
Her "complexion' and exhibitions
and the like will be laid before the
jurors.
DR.. s. A. Tannenbaum, a psyche.
analyst who had attended Mrs. Rnizrn
recently, snid that she had a wen
geance complex, murder nbscs-
sion." and he also advanced the con-
tcntion that Glickstein. the victim. hn,l
placed these quirks in her mind and
thus actually had been responsible for
his own taking off. DR.. Tannenbaum
is one Of the experts who will be called
upon to testify for the woman.
Accompanied to Hotel
According to Daniel O'Connor, room
clerk at the Hotel Breslin. where Mrs.
Raizen registered upon reaching this
city from Florida last Friday morning.
the day before the shooting, she did not
70 TO the hotel alone, but was accom-
panied as far as the desk by a man
companion.
Who was this man? Did she tell
him what she intended to do? In her
statements TO date Mrs. Raixen has
not mentioned having an escort from
the steamship st. Louis. which brought
her here from the South, to the hotel.
District Attorney Lewis will inquire
into this when he sees the prisoner
again.
The bitterness Of DR.. Glickstein' s
relatives against the woman who killed
him was displayed in striking fashion
yesterday morning. As she was taken
from the Gates avenue police station
en- route TO Mr.. Lewis office. Elias
Giickstein, a brother Of the murdered
man, burst through crowd that was
watching events. and struck at her, at
the same time imprecatinE her in Iid-
dish. A detective warded off the blow
and struck Glickstein In return, forcing
him back few feet.
Scientist Advised silence
Mrs. Raizen revealsd the odd fact
thot she, a Jewess, t,ok Christian Sci
ence treatment in an effort TO help her
moodiness. She had for practitioner Il
Mrs. IIachow.
''Do you believe" asked woman
reporter, "that a girl should tell her
husband Of the incidents Of her past
life, or should follow the masculine rule
and remain silent?'
''I do not know. 7 haven't made ur
my mind on that" she replied. But
m aJ,yla knll
not to tcll-that such confessions did
no rood. Perhaps she was right"
Mrs. Raizen's husband did not appear
nt any Of the proceedings in Brooklyn.
Attorney Levy said Mr.. Raizen was in
a quiet place, recovering from the ef-
fectH of his wife's crime and arrest.
but would be back in Il day or so. Her
father. Jacob Schsfer. a tin mnnufsc-
tufer in comfortable circumstances, was
still suffering deeply yesterday when
seen at his home.
"I always thought Or. Glickstpin was
one of my best friends" Mr.. Schaffer
said. when he was arrested and i'm =
prisoned a few years ago for selling
drugs, was one Of the few who stood
BY him and helped him. And my reward
was that he ruined by little LILY"
OF q striking nature were some OF
the observations made about Mrs. Raj
zen ana ner case Dy br. hhnenDaum,
the psyche analyst of 1851 broadway
His comments, he said, were based upon
his study Of her and the things she told
him.
''Her insanity IL clearly shown by
a hailucinatlon from which she suf'
fered," he said. The face and figure
of DIR. Glickstein would come before the
woman every time she looked at hel
husband and would blot out thC
husbands face and figure. That Fl
clear insanity.
again, she had an absolute murder
obsession. When she came TO me las
July and told me her whole story,
learned that this obsesson had beer
suggested by Glickstein himself. fee
no doubt that he fascinated her a
times. yet at other times he acted mos
cold. bloodedly toward her. Once, sn,
told me, he upbraided him for this, anc
he said, Why don't you kill me, then /?
and on several occasions, repeating thi
remark, he would say Have you go
your gun with you, KIDD
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