Evening star., 1921-12-14
PURSUED YEARS,
SHE SLEW DOCTOR
Mrs. C. S. Raizen Contesses
Shooting of DR.. Glickstein
in New York.
COULD NOT FORGET PAST
Tells Story to District Attorney.
> Faces Arraignment in Brook
lyn Court.
COULD NOT FORGET PAST
Rv the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 14.-Plead-
ing eight years of suffering as her
justification, Mrs. Charles s. Raizen
today faced arraignment in Brooklyn
court on charges of killing DIR. Abra-
ham Glickstein, aged forty-eight. IN
his Bedford avenue Office last Satur-
day.
Surrendered to the police by law
yers representing her father and nus
band last night, Mrs. Raizen, VINO Is
twenty-nine years old and the wire
of a toy manufacturer. to whom she
was married last May. told her story
to District Attorney Harry Lewis.
With dry eyes and an air OF sen
control superior to that OF any OF her I
auditors she revealed the secrets OF
a life which she said had been MADE
nearly unbearable by the physician
whose life she had ended WIN
bullet.
She had known Glickstein, she said,
most of her life. He was her family
general practitioner in the lower East.
side of Manhattan, where she, theH
lillian Schaffer, and her parents, as
we'll as Glickstein, lived. He had her
implicit trust, she told the district
attorney, and exercised strange.
but powerful, influence over her-a
sort of magnetic influence, as she ue-
scribed it. .
Mrs. Raizen said she struggled in
vain to break the hold the physician
had on her life. A year ago she
thought she had succeeded. The re-
lationship, which she said had always
been against her will, ended about a
year ago and she thought she was
free.
Advances Renewed.
Then, on the eve of her marriage to
l.aizen, she said, Glickstein renewed
his advances and attacked her in the
office where on Saturday. with the
memory of her injuries torturing her,
she ended his life.
She escaped that time, she said, and
went ahead with her trousseau and
in May was married. On her honey
moon, she said, she confessed all to
her husband and he tried to console
her, told her to try to forget it.
But, to forget, she declared was i'm
possible. The shadowed past became
violent, tormenting obsession that
undermined her health. Finally on
the advice of another physician she
went to Florida. and in Jacksonville,
still unable to find peace. she bought
the fatal pistol. Then she came north.
sought out the object of her fears,
and shot him through the heart.
Leaving the mouse IN wnlcn Guck-
stein was dying, she took a train to
Manhattan, called her father on the
telephone, and told him what she had
done.
Taken to Police Station.
The recital ended. Mrs. Raizen left
the district attorneys office with two
policemen, who took her to a police sta
ton, where she was formally booked on
a homicide charge and where she spent
the night.
Before the arraignment, Aaron W.
Levy. one of the two attorneys who ac-
companied her to the prosecutors Of
flee last night. indicated that the de-
fense would be based upon the conten-
ton that she was mentally unbalanced.
The physician who advised. the south
ern trip, DR.. Samuel A. Tannenbaum,
came to the defense of his patient with
the statement Nhat her mentality was
mot normal
Her act was undoubtedly that of an
insane woman he said. II had hoped
the change of environment brought
about by her trip to Florida would help
her, but apparently it did not"