Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-14
Misunderstanding
Of Dr.. GIickstein
Mrs. Lillian Raizen Claims
Physician Attempted to AS
sault Her on Eve of Her
Wedding Day.

New York, Dec. 1S.-Mrs. Lillian Raj |
zen, wife of Brooklyn toy manufsctur
er, confessed tonight, District Attorney
Lewis of Brooklyn said, that she killed
DR.. Abraham Glickstein at his Office on
Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, Saturday
evening because he attempted to assault
her on the eve of her wedding last May.
Owing to the woman's highly nervous
condition, the district attorney question
ed her only briefly and held her with
o.. bail for further examination tomor-
row.
-,.rs. Raizen, who is 20 years Old told
the district attorney that she had known
| DR.. Glickstein for about eight years and
| that she had been under his influence
| most of that time. About year ago,
| she said, she succeeded in breaking the
relationship. While buying her wedding
| trousseau last spring, Mrs. Raizen said,
DR.. Glickstein telephoned her and asked
her to come to his Office. Believing that
his only intention was to apologize for
| his past conduct she said she called.
| The doctor she told the district attor-
| ney, made an improper proposal and
| then tried to attack ner, but she resisted
| him and left his house in great mental
| distress.
A few days later Mrs. Raizen was
married While on her honeymoon. she
ment she had suffered from the physi-
clan. Her husband forgave her. she add
| ed and urged her to Danish the past
fro mher mind. She declared. however.
that the experience in DR.. Glickstein's s
office, shortly before her wedding.
went to her head" and for three
months she was under the care of ply
sician who recommended a change of
climate for her nervous condition. She
went to Daytona. Florida, and later II
Jacksonville where she bought the
weapon with which DIR. Glickstein was
killed
Mrs. Raizen said she returned to New
York secretly Friday night without tht
knowledge of her father, Jacob Schaef
fer. a Brooklyn tinware manufacturer
or any of her friends, and engaged
room in New York hotel. She brood
ed constantly she said, and finally OF
! Saturday afternoon started for DR.
: Glickstein's home in Brooklyn.
, After the shooting Mrs. Raizen sai'
= she left the house in daze and walke'
| the streets She returned to Manhat
tan and met friends then she telephone
her father in Brooklyn what she ha
+ done.
e and her husband until Sunday when a.
torneys were called into consultatio
aid they advised immediate surrende
a to the district attorney.
Aaron Levy. of the attorneys, en-
: gagged to defend Mrs. Raizen. declare
Il that she vas mentally unbalanced, II
dicating that the defense would b
based on insanity. 1n-talSing with he
!. he said she had remarked that she di
Z not want to live as her life and happ
!. ness had been ruined and that while
= Florida she felt her mind giving wa,
She told him, she said, that the though
possessed her that she must destroy II
.s doctor and end her life.
Mrs Glickstein, widow of the slai
:, physician, expressd surprise when II
= formed of Mrs. Raizen's confession.
81 can hardly believe, even now" 81
said, that she is the woman who killt
my husband"
N Harry Willing, son-in-law of Mr.
u Glickstin, declared that Mrs. Raizen
name was one of sverM furnished to Il
: police by the physicians family after Il
murdr. although no on suspected her
the time.
D. Police declared, howver. that tn
II wer on Mrs Raizen's trail and that
N arrrst was imminent when she gave he
81 self up The wapon with which she sh
the doctor was found undr a bookcase
the doctors office. 1t was manufactur
n by tn Smith & Wsson revolver factory
10 Springfield, Mass. and through that fiji
L traced to S. B. Hubbard, a hardwa
i dealer in Jacksonville.
Mr. Hubbard wired that tn weap
! was purchased by a man giving the naI
H. of T. G. Ellis, who was accompanied
Mt woman. The description he furnish
es of this woman answered that of NJ
III Raizen. Mrs. Raize ndeclared that S
met Mr.. Ellios on tn train going do
to Florida and told him her troubles.
he | bar Uh ch ha
n revolver, which she intended to use
shoot herself, her counsel said.
OF She wrote of her intention to comr
suicide to her doctor. He turned her
ter over to her husband, who received
lie on the same day that DR.. Glickstein "
tn killed.
Of Members of the Glickstein family s.
us that they had known Mrs. Raizen
Is, 4 years and that sha had called at tn
home in May and personally invited til
to her wedding.
ST. Mr.. Schaeffer, Mrs. Raizen's faith
th- last Sunday was invited to the doctc
me funeral and asked for the telephone nu
m ber of the daughter so that she could
ie- invited, but he is said to have repli,
Never mind, will notify my daugh
myself" A message of coincidence fr
,en Mr.. Schaeffer was received at the Gil
op- stein home on Monday. the day of
ad funeral.
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