New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
Sons Murder Kept Secret
From Aged Woman, Her
Heart Fails at Sight of
Casket Before Funeral
Prosecutor Orders
NurseRe-questioned
Widow Connects HerWith
Cards to Slain Doctor:
Pistol Sold Is Yrs. Ago

Inc aged mother of DR.. Abraham T.
Gllckstein, who was killed by mys.
ferrous and still unidentified younp
woman in tho consultation room of his
nome. No. 535 Bedford Avenue. Brook.
lyn, last Saturday evening, fell dead
Yesterday esAse~ee4 eex~s~ the exsAAl
containing the body of her son. The
physicians funeral was delayed an hour
while the body of his mother was re.
moved and the weeping women mem.
bers of the family, made hysterical by
the second tragedy within forty light
hours, were quieted.
While the police were unable up to
an early hour this morning to report
any appreciable progress in the search
Tor the physicians slayer, Assistan Mt
District Attorney Cooper decided last
night to inquire further into the pos
slble connection with the case of a
young woman who had been interrorated
and apparently dismissed from furthe,
consideration at 2 O'Clock yesterda,
morning. She has been summoned to
Mr.. Cooper's Office this morning fol
further questioning.
Woman Resident of Manhattan
The woman is married and lives ir
Manhattan. She was routed out of bee
at midnight yesterday and taken to the
Clymer Street police station, where two
young women who got a good look al
the slayer as she sat awaiting DR.
Glicksteln in his reception room were
asked if they could identify her After
they had seen her the impression that
they had said she was not the woman
her description, was allowed to become
liked IN the minds of newspaper men.
The young woman told Captain Carey
and Mr.. Cooper that she had been in
France during the war, both as a Red
Cross and Y. NJ. C. A. worker. She
became acquainted with DR.. Glckstcir
when he examined her for Red Gross
service, she said, and, since he de-
clined to accept any fee for his scrv.
ices, she felt she owed him debt OF
gratitude. This she undertook to dis.
charge, she explained, by sending from
France several souvenirs and writing
postcards and letters.
only IN. j. H." that led Mrs. Click
stein to tell the police what she knew
of the writer. DR.. Glickstein, she said
had expressed some impatence at re-
ceiving repeated communications from
a woman in whom he apparently had
little interest, and at his suggestion
his wife destroyed the letters and
cards.
A coincidence cropped up yesterday
to change Mr.. Cooper's mind with re
gard to the woman. She had said that
at one time she was a resident oil
Philadelphia. A report from the
Springfield (Mass.) factory of Smith &
Wesson, makers Of the revolver with
which DR.. Glickstein was killed, was
Der was sold to a sporting goods dealer
in Philadelphia more than fifteen years
ago.
The revolver with which the killing
was done and which was dropped or
the floor Of the consultation room
folded in malNshift fur muff, through
which it had been fired, appeared to be
new, but was of type which might
have been made at any time within the
last quarter of century and carefully
preserved by virtue of not being used.
Funeral Twice Held Up
The death of DR.. Glickstein's mother
was not the only incident to mar hi!
funeral When it came time for the
body of the physician TO be taken from
the house the undertaken, members OF
the family said. demanded that he be
paid $500 for his services before start
ing for the cemetery.
Mrs. Lena Glickstein, mother of DR.
Glickstein, who was seventysix years
old, was not told Of the death of he)
son until she had almost reached the
house in a taxicab with two OF the
physicians daughters, Mrs. Florence
willing and Mrs. Laura Meister. She
had been told at her home in ConeA
Island that her son had been operated
on for appendicitis and was in criti-
cal condition. When she saw severa
hundred persons collected about tn.
house she guessed the truth anu col
lapsed.
Members of the family carried her tt
a bedroom on an upper floor, and wher
she had recovered sufficiently led hel
to the casket, which stood in the re
ception room, almost at the spot where
Dr.. Glickstein fell dead on Saturday
with a bullet through his heart. Wall
ing in Yiddish that she wanted to 60
to the grave with her son. Mrs. Click
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