The New York herald., 1921-12-12
SLAYER OF DOCTOR
WOMAN WORKER in
WAR, WIDOW THINKS
Knew Her. Only as Patient
Who Annoyed Glickstein
With Letters.
QUI1ZED BY POLICE
Manhattan Woman, Said to
Have Been Nurse, Goes to
Brooklyn Station.
NEW REVOLVER is CLUE
Full Description Of Murderer
Given by Four Eye
witnesses.
NEW REVOLVER Is CLUE

The widow of Or. Abraham Click
stein. who was murdered In his office
at 5S5 Bedford avenue on Saturday
by a woman who shot him with a new
pistol concealed and siIenced beneath
the folds Of a fur stole wadded into
The shape Of a muff. believes she
knows who the woman may be.
The police admitted last night they
wished to find and question a woman
who lives in the Eastern District of
Brooklyn and that men were posted
at her horne to await her return.
Mrs. Glickstein's belief. or theory.
Is based on the description given by
DIR. Glicksteln's callers who were in
the reception room and who for several
minutes observed her as she waited
TO be admitted to the consultation
office.
Late last night a young woman
whose identity was withheld by the
police accompanied two detectives to
the Clymer street station and there
was questioned concerning the mur-
der, but released at 80 this morn
ing. Assistant District Edward Cooper,
who had charge of the examination
refused to comment on the new de-
velopment, but it was learned an ef-
fort to have witnesses of the meeting
between the physician and his mur-
deress identify the young woman had
fallen fiat. The woman who was ques-
toned lives in Manhattan.
Mrs. Glickstein says this description
rallics with that of young woman
who had both visited the doctor and
written him repeatedly and at whose
correspondence he had expressed an
noyance. She is, Mrs. Glickstein has
told the police and District Attorney
q young or youngish woman who
served overseas in war time.
After her return she called on the
physician several times, saying she
had a pain in her side. On one ac-
casion he made professional call on
the upper west side Of Manhattan
where she then lived. and took one OF
his daughters along.
Thereafter she was out Of the city
q great deal, and frequently she wrote
TO DR.. Glickstein, usually on postcards.
These messages, the police were told
he ignored. He was pictured as being
irritated by them ard as tearing up at
least one OF the letters In the presence
Of his wife, and as saying: What on
earth does that woman want? II she
is III It is my duty to treat her, but
will not be annoyed" That letter ar
rived last spring T, ON a point outside
New York. The writer said she was
not feeling well and was coming back
TO consult the doctor again. That is the
last DR.. Glickstein heard OF her. so far
ss his widow knows.
Only Clue for Police.
The widows theory greatly interested
the police for Il offered the only hint
rs TO the identity of any woman who
might have thought she had a grievance
against the ply sician. But unfortunately
Mrs. Glickstein did not know the wom-
ans address. Mrs. GlicksteIn herself
was sitting just inside her front gate
on the basement level, at the moment
when the murder was done. The woman
who did 1t must have como down the
front steps from tho floor above and
passed close to Mrs. Glickstein. But
women were constantly coming and go-
Ing, the doctor havit y been specialist
IN the treatment o. their ailments and
Mrs. Glfckstein, seeing no reason to
watch the patients closely, did not see
this particular one
Capt Daniel J. Carey. boss of detec-
tives In the Clymer street police station
house, hoped Dr. GiickstcIn's office safe
might furnish the address of the former
war worker mentioned by the widow
But II contained nothing more than the
ordinary personal papers of physician
Last night Capt. Carey would not admit
he had heard the story about the war
worker who annoyed Dr. Giickstcin with
calls and correspondcnce He would only
say the police were looking "for at lea ast
one woman" In view OF the rule of the
Police Department against the outgiving
OF Information. 1t Is only fair TO Capt
Carey TO say che foregoing facts did not
scme 10 this newspaper from him or any
other member OF the force.
The other leads" are the fur niece
and the revolver. The fur piece seems to
be almost hopless az clue. II is old,
much worn, has no Identifying marks. ls
1ust like thousand OF others.
Pistol Hidden I'm Stole.
When the fur was found on the floor
ot the doctors office. not long after he
had been shot in that room. the muszle
cf the revolver was protruding through
ths rip In the lining. But charred felt
srst beneath the lining and the smell Of
burnt hair. indicated the weapon had
been wholly enveloped in the manner
described at the moment Of firing. The
tails Of the fur had been folded beneath
the collnr and stitched to the collar with
coarse thread, so the stole had lost it's
identity and become q shapeless bundle
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