The New York herald., 1921-12-13
MURDERED DOCTORS
MOTHER FALLSDEAD
ACROSS HIS COFFIN
She Believed Glickstein
Was Ill Until Brought
Into the Chamber.
SLAYER COVERS TRAIL
Witnesses to Escape Vainly
Seek Woman at the
Services.
TRACING THE REVOLVER
One Woman Is Questioned
Thousands of Curious at
the Funeral.

The woman who shot DR.. Abraham
Glickstein in his Bedford avenue office
on Saturday afternoon is responsible
for two deaths. The Doctors mother,
Mrs. Lena Glickstein, fell Iifeless
across his body yesterday just before
the funeral was to have begun. She
was elderly and infirm. The relatives
thought they were doing her a kind
ness by having her suppose urtil the
latest possible moment he was merely
III and had been operated upon. But
when she stsS the body. coffined III the
same room n which he had fallen
when murdere%, she flung herself upon
it and her heasI gave way. Her death
caused the funsPal Of DR.. Glickstein
to be postponed for three hours and
added to the confusion Of an already
overwrought household.
When the party finally started
toward Washington Cemetery upward
of 1000 persons on foot fell in bc hind
the line of thirty cars and carriages
They marched as long as they could
keep up. There was much lamenta-
ton. beating Of breasts and other
signs Of grief. The funeral of DR..
Glickstein was recorded as one Of the
largest and most variegated as to
participants that williamsburg has
known.
The four women who, while waiting
in the Doctors reception room on Sat-
urday saw the stranger with the fur
stole who killed him. attended the SER
vice in the house. 5s5 Bedford avenue,
and rode with the others to the ceme-
terry On the old theory, seldom sub
stantiated in real life. that murderer
sometimes returns TO witness the last
rites over the body OF his victim, they
were asked to observe carefully every
face and figure they saw. They did
so without result.
No Clue to Slayer.
No apparent progress was made yes
terday toward arresting the woman
who shot DR.. Glickstein With a revolver
sewed into q fur stole arranged as
muff. The police are trying to find all
his women patients or other women
with whom he may have been ac-
tainted who could possibly know any
thing about his taking off
The young Red Cross war worker
who appeared voluntarily before the
police and Assistant District Attorney
Edward w. Cooper on Sunday night
and was scrutinised by the witnesses
will return to Brooklyn this morning
for more questioning by Mr.. Cooper.
She is Miss Mary Jane Lippincott and
lives In West Fifteenth street. Manhat-
tan. She was patient Of Dr. Click
STEMS not long ago. and Mr.. Cooper
evidently hopes she may be able to give
him information about other patients.
no complete list of whom has been
found IN the physicians home or office.
She was brought into the investlga-
ton because It was found she had writ
ten several post cards to DR.. Glickstein
and had given him a present. She ex-
planned the post cards were only such
as any patient might write 20 ner physi-
clan while she was out OF the cit:. The
present was a German shell she had
brought from France as a souvenir of
the war and which was to be made into
a lamp.
Dr.. Glicksteln. she said. had patriotic
ally refused 20 accept a fee when ne
examined her before her acceptance by
the Red Cross. He suggested. laughing.
that II she would only bring him back
the Kaiser's helmet that would be fee
m nj hA UOinp
TO bring him something anyway, and.
her promise, gave him the
German shell. She told Mr.. Cooper she
first consulted DR.. Glickstein in the
spring OF 1918 and last saw him at least
six months ago. She readily admitted
having written him post card signed
M. ]. L." This admission impressed
the police with the young woinan's sim
ccrity. as the post card was torn UP soon
after it's receipt and she knew there was
nothing to challenge her with.
As q matter OF form the four women
who saw the murderees on Saturday and
who think they would know her Instantly
II they saw her again were asked by the
police TO look az Miss Lippincott These
are Mrs. BERTHE Herbert, Mrs Annie
Kaufman. Mrs. Lillian wolfson and Mrs.
Annie Steiner All were positive they
had never seen Miss Lippincott before.
but said the woman who did the shoot
ing WAS of the same general type. Miss
II Is understood. Ia not
nurse, but went with the Red Cross AZ
n clerical worker. IL is also under
stood she said she passed last Saturday
afternoon shopping in Manhattan and
gave Mr.. Cooper a list of the stores she
visited. with the approximate time of
each visit and of purchases made.
Are Tracing Revolver.
An impression obtained from the police
yesterday was that no important infor-
nation had been obtained from ans OF
:he three or four women who have been
questioned and that they have no live
lead TO work on with the exception of the
ownership or the revolver. The num-
Der of this revolver. new Smith
Wesson. is being kept secret while the
police are trying to tracs. through the