The New York herald., 1921-12-17
PHYSICIANS SLAYER
INSANE, IS DEFENCE
Mrs. Raizen Incompetent at
Time Of Killing and Re-
mains So, Is Contention.

A dispute as to the sanity OF Mrs.
Lillian S. Raizen is likely to precede
any decision as to what shall be done
with her because she killed Dr. Abra-
ham Glickstein.
1t seems certain that her lawyers will
incompetent in the medico-legal sense
at the time of the shooting, but is now,
and therefore cannot be put on trial
for her life. They expect to base this
contention on the conclusions of four
alienists who have twice examined Mrs.
Ralzen and will do so again to-day, and
on letters which she sent to her hus-
band and others before the shooting.
AS the lawyers interpret these let
ters. they indicated her special delusion
to be that her mind and soul were
controlled by DR.. 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 office in Brooklyn.
Her counsel-Benjam!n Reass and
Aaron w. Levy-are well aware that
IL the insanity commission. whose ap-
pointmcnt by the court they are likely
to request. finds her 10 be mentally
irresponsible she will have to be COM
mitted to a State institution for the
criminal insane. They are also aware
that II her mind should be restored un-
der confinement 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 circumstances
conviction is almost never obtained.
Juries usually reason that IL person
was so insane in the first place that
he could not be tried he was In similar
state of mind at the time of the crime
and. having recovered, should be set
free.
Messrs Reass and Levy explained yes
terday the relations between Mrs.
Raizen and Albert Bradley. the lunch
room porter who met her at the pier on
her return from Florida as one of
Friendship growing out Of common
misery. Bradley. a man of go, had
had troubles of his own. He noticed
that Mrs. Raizen sat day after day in
the lunchroom chair hardly ating any
thing and seeming very despondent.
He offered her @ newspaper one day and
thus their acquaintanceship began. Last
February Bradley was III and she sent
him s25 In Florida she wrote him
telling him when she would return
District Attorney Lewis said yesterday
he was not looking for Bradley for he
had learned that Mrs. Raizen's lawyers
could produce him any time he was want
ed Mr.. Lewis said he was satisfied that
nobody accompanied Mrs. Raizen when
she went to 535 Bedford avenue and
shot the doctor.
Papers of the DR.. Abraham Glckstein
Memorial Association, which will fight
TO protect the dead mans reputation.
have been sent to Albany. Or. Michael
F-riedland Of $50 South Fifth street.
williamsburg. Is It's president. DR.. Man
uel Buchalter OF 362 Roeblng street.
said yesterday that everything In Mrs.
Raizen's confession Is false except the
fact of the shooting. He said the truth
was that she was infatuated with DR..
Glickstein and that she told him CDR.
EachaIter) one day, "I want the doctor
and If he doesn't marry me I'll kill him."
DR.. Buchalter added. "She was on DR..
ClIckstein's trail morning, noon and
night
Another friend OF Or. Glickstein, DR..
Samuel Swetnick of 2S6 South Fourth
street said that Glickstein had told him
that Lily Schaffer had gone to him as
n patient and then tried to get him to
marry her and that Glickstein had said
to her: Lilly. how could I marry you
even II 7 wanted to? I am a married
man. n father and n grandfather" DR..
A. Samuel Moss of 266 East Broadway,
Manhattan, said "She followed DR..
Giickstein around and seemed infatuated
with HIM"