The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-17
RA|zEN WITNESS
WAS CLERK
IN D. {.
Albert Bradley Testifies OF
Friendship for Woman
Who Slew Doctor.

NEW YORK. Feb. 17.-Albert
Bradley used TO be a clerk in the
Navy Department at Washington
and lived there with his father, who
was Comdr. William Wallace Brad
ley, of the United States navy. but
now he is restaurant bus boy and
lives at the Hotel Gotham at 300
Bowery at cost of 80 cents a
night.
Bradley testified yesterday to his
acquaintance with Mrs. Lillian S.
Raizen, who is on trial before
Justice James G. CropSey, in the
supreme court in Brooklyn, charged
with the murder of DIR. Abraham
Glickstein.
Talked Like Scholar,
now sixty-two, has spent years On
the Bowery he spoke while Oh the
witness stand in the perfect Eng
lish of the scholar and displayed
every evidence Of education, He
deplored the publicity which the
trial would bring him, as he feared
that it might prevent him from oo,
tanning employment in restaurants.
Bradley has worked in many. he
said. but he has never been able 10
become even y waiter he has al
ways been the bus boy who collect
ed the dishes and took them into
the kitchen TO be washed.
Bradley said he knew Mrs. RaiZen
when she was Miss Lillian Schaefer,
before she married Charles Raizen
and before she met DIR. Glickstein
She entered a lunchroom where he
worked one day. Bradley said, and
he gave her paper to read. They
talked and then they began going
around together. They dined to-
gether probably fifty times, he said,
ne always paying the bills.
Discussed Books Together.
They went to inexpensive restau-
rants. said Bradley. and discussed
music, current events and books,
and in later years the. motion pic
lures. They met after she left the
office where she worked, and at &
o'clock he took her to the subway
station or to the night school ard
then went down to his Bowery Iodg-
ing house.
Mrs. Raizen was married in Nav,
1921, and Bradley said that he did
not see her from March, 1921, to De-
cember. 1921. On the morning of
December 10, he said, she asked him
to visit her in her room at the Hotel
Breslin, which he did. She locked
the door, he testified, and turned to
him pale and trembling, as if she
had not slept.
"A man whose name I cannot
divulge has wronged me-" she told
him.
That same night, said Bradley, he
lunch room where he was bus boy,
and she said:
Albert, I've done it"'
WHAT" he asked.
I've shot him" Bradley said she
screamed, and hung up the receiver.
Twenty minutes later she called
again and said:
i've shot and killed DIR. Abra-
ham Glickstein at 535 Bedford av-
enue. and I am trying to get my
father. Good-by.'
The assistant district attorney,
Mr., Gallagher, asked Bradley if
there had been a love affair be-
tween himself and Mrs. Raizen.
Still Respects Her.
II never intended to marry that
woman" said Bradley There
were three specific reasons: The
vast difference in our ages, nv
poverty and the differences in our
religious beliefs"
did she think a lot of you?"
II do not know
Did you think a lot of herr"
respected her. 1 respect her
now
Mrs. Raizen collapsed when her
father, Jacob Schaefer, went to the
stand.
oh, papa, dear papa" she cried,
please forgive me for all the sor-
row have brought into your Iifew
She fell forward in her chair, and
q Jail matron went to comfort her,
but Justice Cropsey said:
You are ailer. Sit down there
where you belong"
WIFE NOT ANSWERARI