Evening journal., 1921-12-17
insane, TO OBE
RAIzEN PLEA
Incompetent at Time of Kill
ing Doctor and Remains
So, is Contention
FRIENDS ASSERT
HE WAS HOUNDED

NEW YORK, Dec. IA dispute
as to the sanity OF Mrs Lillian S.
Raizen is likely to precede any de-
cision as to what shall be done with
her because she killed DR.. Abraham
lGlickstein.
1t seems certain that her lawyers
will contend that she was not only
mentally incompetent in the medico-
legal sense at the time OF the shoot
ing, but is now. and therefore can
not be put on trial for her life. They
expect TO base this contention on
the conclusions OF four allenists
fTio have twice examined Mrs.
Raizen and will do so again today,
and on letters which she sent to her
husband and others before the
shooting.
As the lawyers interpret these let
ters they indicated her special de-
msion to be that "her mind and soul
were controlled" by DIR. Glickstein
and that she could not be freed OF
his mastery except by his death.
She also used this quoted phrase
yesterday when she was questioned
by District Attorney Lewis at his Of
fee in 81 ooklyn.
Her counsel - Benjamin Reass
and Aaron w. Levy-are well aware
that il the insanity commission,
whose appointment by the court
they are likely 10 request, finds her
to be mentally irresponsible she will
have to be committed to a State in
stitution for the criminal insane,
They are also aware that II her
mind should be restored under con-
hnement and treatment she would
have to come back to Brooklyn and
stand trial for murder
But they are also familiar with
the fact that under such circum-
stances a conviction is almost never
obtained. Juries usually reason
that II person was so insane in the
first place that he could not be tried
he was in a similar state OF mind al
the time OF the crime and, having
recovered, should be set free.
Messrs, R,ass and Levy explained
yesterday the relations between Mrs
Raizen and Albert Bradley, the
lunch .-oom porter who met her AT
the pier on her return from Florida
as one OF friendship growing out OF
a common misery. Bradley, a man
OF GO, had had troubles OF his own
He noticed that Mrs. Raizen sat day
after day in the lunch room chair
hardly eating anything and seeming
very despondent. He offered her q
newspaper one day and thus theii
mountaineering began. Last Feb
ruary Bradley was IN and she sen
him s25. In Florida she wrote hin
telling him when she would return
District Attorney Lewis said yester
day he was not looking for Bradley
for he had learned that Mrs Raiz
ems lawyers could produce him an!
time he was wanted. Mr. Lewil
said he was satisfied that nobody ac
companied Mrs Ralzen. when she
went to 535 Bedford avenue ant
shot the doctor.
Papers OF the DR.. Abraham Click.
stein Memorial Association. which
will fight to protest the dead mans
reputation. have been sent to AL.
bany. DR.. Michael Friedland OF s6C
South Fifth street. Williamsburg. 4,
its president. Dr. Manuel Muchaltei
OF 362 Roebling street, said yester-
day that everything in Mrs Raizen'.
confession is false Vcept the fac
OF the shooting. He said the truth
was that .he was Infatuated will
/ Or. Glickstein and that she told hin
CDr Buchalter) one day. 81 wa
the doctor and II he doesn't marry
me I'll kin him." DR.. Buchaltei
added, "She was on DR.. Glickstein'i
trail morning, noon and night"
Another friend OF DR.. Gnckstein
DR.. Samuel Swetnick OF 2S6 Souti
Fourth street. said that Gncksteir
had told him that Lily Schaffer hat
gone to him as a patient and ther
tried TO get him TO marry her ant
that Glickstein had said to her
Lily, how could / marry you ever
il / wanted to2 I am a Marie,
man, a father and a grandfather.
DR.. A. Samuel Moss OF 266 Eas
Broadway. Manhattan, said: "Sh
followed DR.. Glickstein around an
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