New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
Alieniists Call
Mrs. Raizen of
t1nsollnd Mind
uon,an Who Slew Doctor
Paranoiac on Subject
Long Before Murder, Say
doctors for The Defense
finding Based ON Notes
I,;.irict Attorney Ready TO
Fight Immediate Plea
ior Sanity Commission


r,gr alienists employed by the de-
1,ss 10 examine Mrs. Lillian SchaEer
s.;,sa. who shot and killed DR.. Abra-
s. {;lickstein in his Brooklyn Office
nssemher 10, yesterday reported her
rssae.
me report declares the woman to
- been insane at the time the shoot
:. ,ook place. insane before that and
N insane. It was sent to Benjamin
s..sx 100 Broadway. and Aaron Levy.
! Wall Street, attorneys fer Mrs.
ssiseu.
The ulienists who signed the state
u.et are DR.. B. Isham Harris, super
'.,su5ent Brooklyn State Hospital for
,s.ane; DR.. Edward Z. Hicks, visiting
socialist in mental diseses, Kings
fssu.y Hospital; DR.. Charles ". Pill
I'm. former president State Hospital
r,mnission, snd DR.. George II. Kirby.
s,setor psychistric Institute of New
york State Hospitals.
The examination Of Mrs. Raizen was
,.sdccted in Raymond Street Jail,
ss,re a four-day study of the prison
* mental state WAS made. Accord
~ to Mr.. Levy the alienists attach
r,sst Importance to the letter written
i Mrs. Raizon from Florida three
zeaEs before the crime, TO her hus-
s,ag Charles Raizen, and also the
s,Iss sDe wrote 30 Samuel A. Tanncn-
5,uE,, her physician. The letters
,soged, according to opinions of the
.i;enisfs that dementia existed in a
sell defined stage previous to the
shoeting.
III. Lew said the alienists ques-
toned nine other persons, including
sesfsther OF Mrs. Raizen, her three
ls.eYs. Charles Raizen. the husband;
D, Tannenbaum and Albert Bradley, q
after who met Mrs. Raizen when she
rtarned here from Florida. The alien
ia are said to have characterized Mrs.
-sssen in their report as parar oiac.
The type is that which appears sane on
II subjects but the one which has be-
sme an obsession.
lr. Levy refused to comment last
ssht en- action he would take follow
re the report 1t was said, however,
.ast an application would be made to
ae County Court for appointment of
commission to examine Mrs. Raizen.
q fhe event that this commission finds
81 insane she would in all probability
committed TO Matteawan
following the rumor circulated in
lroaklyn yesterday that immediate ap-
STATION would be made for such q
smmissior to inquire into Mrs. Raj
sn's mental condition, District Attor-
ssy Lewis said he would oppose such
;dpn.
Albert Bradley, the waiter, friend
s Mrs. Raizen before her marriage,
i'2 Mr.. Lewis ali about his acquaint-
ice with her in detailed statement
esterday.
Bradley said he met the woman
layee years ago. He was at that time
.nployed as bus boy in a restaurant.
IL took Mrs. Raizen to dinner several
arss, he said, but always left her
bouts or $3.50 o'clock in the evening.
K one time he thought his friendship
~ her might be misunderstood, so he
horned her that marriage between
ZEN would be out of the question be-
'ause Of disparity in their ages and re-
sleus beliefs, as we'll as because of
IS financial condition. After this
'5sode he continued to meet the wom-
4 regularly until last March. When
e learned cf her engagement to
aalfen he discontinued his calls.
4 month ago, Bradley said. he re-
sEsd note from Mrs. Raizen at Day
i9ns, Fla, asking him to return S25
sas mad lent him. He telegraphed her
ne money. Later she wrote and asked
lm to meet her at the pier on her
rival. He called on her next day at
ne Hotel Breslin, and she told him she
Is gong to "kill DOCTOR" She ex-
Named. he said, that she had procured
suu AID five kinds of poison. When
e demonstrated with her she laughed
sac said she had been merely fooling.
nat evening She called him on the
neephone and told him she had killed
;ae doctor He at once called up Mrs.
Aalzen's father and repeated what the
woman had sand.