The Washington times., 1921-12-25
DOCTOR kept
MRS. RA|zEN As
s.3NLOVE CAPTIVE
2 CIickstein's Slayer Unable to
Resist His Advances, She
~ Declares.
KILLER Is HELD UNSTABLE
Physician Is Seen Accessory
Before the Fact of His
Own Death.
BY MARGERY REX.

BY MARGERY REX.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Loss of
self.respect is often followed
by complete breaking down
of moral strength.
Men and women may make mis-
takes, regret them and yet live to
f1nd happiness if their morale has
not been impaired.
Wouldn't Let Her Forget.
But with the continued reminde.
that she had degraded herself. with
tantalizing voices limiting, whispering
with the gloating face of the sharer
of guilty secret near. how could
Mrs. Lillian Raizen, self-confessed
slayer of DIR. Abraham Glickstein,
fan to feel strong desires for freedom.
= possibly through revenge?
Glicksetin wouldn't let her forget
/. she belonged to him. Mrs, Raizel
wanted to belong to herself.
Glickstein was as surely an acces-
sorry before the fact in his own mur.
der as any hired, accOmplice could
have been. According TO the story III
his slayer he fOrcibly took possession
Of her eight years ago. Since that
time he had made her believe that tn
break off relations he insisted must
continue would be to court disgrace.
ful exposure. ,..
Lillian Schaffer, in those first days
was girl of twenty. Just an aver
age. normal girl as far as appear
ances and conduct went.
What changed her into a muir
deress?
DR.. Elizabeth s. Hellweg, assistant
psychiatrist in the Manhattan State
Hospital at Wards Island has some
scientific comments to make upon the
case:
ITO go back to the beginning OF
her grievances against Dr.. Glickstein
this sexual trauma' a word which
means violent attack or shock un-
forseen and unpreventable) he forced
upon her, upset her so that she could
not set the right perspective upon
things.
"She must have been unstable
.emotionally to have been permanently
cowed down by fear that she would be
EXPOSED by her seducer., ,..~..,g
"A sharp and clever woman would |
Know that she could turn the tables /
on such a man If she wished, and il |
he continued to prosecute her
But being of this Unstable type
this girl so lost control of herself that |
she acceeded to Glicksten's desires |
after that happening. She feared to |
Cisobey him, evidently. ,....
- No Longer Owned Herself.
And so at twenty, Lille Schaffers |
firl hood ended, and she began to view |
the world through sin-smoked glasses. |
She no longer owned herself. She |
belonged to another in the bonds |
T. nc rSh i, A.,
doing.
But what was gained by killing
Glickstein?
ITO normal person there WOULD
ne no gain in putting the man to
DEATH" says DIR. Hilweg
Vengeance is normal. But to kill
Tor vengeance IL not normal.
ITO the abnormal il would be tho
only way to find a clear way through
blank wall to kill the seducer.
!, after that she would think she
might live In peace with her husband.
"If she were deeply in love with
Raizen and he ended their marital re-
lations when he learned of her past,
che would feel forced to straighten out
affairs,
Imagined Home Broken Up.
This woman must have imagined
fer home broken up because of her
past disgrace which she had made
known; she must have felt Glicksteifi
would impel her again to a sinful re-
lationship.
ut would be easy for one not men
tally strong to brood and to develop
d strong 'cocpulsfve' urge.
"She would thus evolve, under this
Influence, firm decision to kill the
cause Of her broken home, to remove
the irritating factor
Ideas of revenge are normal to
anyone who has been injured But
the abnormal fact about this affair
is that the woman could not get con-
troll of the feeling that she must be
revenged to the point of killing. |
q EVERY normal emotion can be-
come abnormal If all inhibitions and
all regard for moral and legal re-
strictions are cast aside and the In
divfdual is dominated solely by one
idea
IF this all happened to Mrs.
Raizen, II her story is true and she
suffered from this compulsive OBJ
session, she might after period of
and care have been re- ]
stored to her normal mind !
Her tension was evident before ,
the shooting. She was seen to pace ,
up and down the doctors
office and act in a way that indi. :
Gated an abnormal condition. ,
Several people present at the
time testified that the doctor seemed
disturbed when he saw her. He .
might have been fearsome for either :
of two reasons.
Doctor Realized Condition. I
"Dr. Glickstein, 1t seems to me, I
her overwrought condition. !
He may have treated her, and may 1
have known that in her agitated state
and sudden appearance she was dan
gerous to him.
J 'If the report Is true, which states
that he feared to see her alone, II
shows he knew the potential danger {
In a personal encounter. Id
ION the other hand, Il is possible !
that such stories of seduction and per. \
secution are lurid Pigments of disor-
iered brains.
: "If this is SO, then she reveals a
case of 'dementia praecox' and has /,
gone through the entire experience I