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16 A BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1936 -ft Perpetual Phlegmatic Snaps Under Strain-Finds Long-Sought Relief in a Good Scream Vera Stretz Shooting Recalls Raizen Case Boys High Seeking Math Award Again Boys' High School, winner of the tri-State Pi Mu Epsilon mathematics contest last year, has entered a veteran team in an effort 'o win a second in the three-hour ex-amination sponsored by the New York University chapter. The borough team will include Benjamin Lax, captain; Harry SchwarU, Irving Fox, Seymour Manson and Sam Manson. The first two were members of the team last year. I I (krM1. ft matic business to him again he will scream.

He does scream. He screams that he is so this and that sick and tired of being a Phlegmatic that that He screams: "Eeeee-yow-oooooo-eeeEEEEE!" Thereafter he feels better. WEER. Parallel Seen in Motives That Drove Two Young Women, Alike in Temperament, to Kill Men of Similar Attainments By ALICE COG AN A blue ribbon jury has freed Vera Stretz in a coiyt room but the case is still being tried in the living room or wherever people get together to talk. And frequently the parallel is drawn to the case of the undersigned winces, at the same time saying, "Ouch!" "Not ouch, I'm sure," returns the drilling dentist "You Phlegmatics don't mind a little thing like that." The undersigned thanks the good doctor for the compliment and doesn't mind.

And before long (Scene 2) he is seated at his typewriter at home, with a manuscript before him on which he is about to type out a masterpiece, or classic. It Is a pure white manuscript as yet, because he is Thinking, and until he has finished Thinking, why, there is nothing to write about. He is thus occupied in thought when a music-minded Relative turns radio dials and Soandso's Band pours out the tale of the music with a circular movement. The undersigned inquires, "Isn't it possible to have some quiet Lillian Raizen, now serving Lillian Raizen Vera Stretz around here, so a man might crimes, the defense of the two think?" To which the Relative replies, know you're just mind I've ever known," Lillian Raizen was quoted as saying. women was very different.

Mrs Iokine. vou Phlegmatic, you! I bet Raizen's lawyer, now Supreme Court vou could think right through a Justice Albert Conway, claimed his client was not sane at the time she hundred bands and never even know what they're playing." Calm in Bedlam killed Dr. Glickstein. Alienists Disagreed Vera's lawyer, Samuel Lelbowitz, Ahem! That leads directly to bothered with no expert testimony of alienists but yanked out the ghost of Nietzsche and a crime men tioned in Biblical days to plead Jus tifiable homicide for his client. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to notify that the undersigned is sick and tired of being a Phlegmatic.

A Phlegmatic, of course, is some one equipped with an old-model pulse, the kind that throbs at an unexcited, horse-and-buggy pace. People with that kind of slow heart beat have no nerves, and probably ice water in their veins. Nothing disturbs them. Well, that's the undersigned for you a Phlegmatic. The most explosive explosions could burst around him and he would remain calm.

Like Lo, the poor Indian, you could torture him with excruciating pain-makers and he would ignore the whole business. He never raises his voice above an insulting and unemotional medium-low. Yes. And then what happens? The first thing that happens is Dr. the undersigned's dentist.

"It Is a nice day," says the good doctor to the undersigned in the dentist's chair. The doctor is making conversation and at the same time drilling away happily and without a care in the world. "A patient like you," saya he, "is really a pleasure for any dentist. I Just know that no matter what I do you won't mind." "Br-r-r-r-rrr!" says the drill, and two women was quite similar. Nervous, sensitive and high-strung, neither defendant could control her emotions In court.

When Lillian Raizen was on the stand, she was bathed in tears and her weeping occasioned frequent sharp rebukes from Justice Cropsey. Vera and her tears had trouble with Judge Cornelius F. Collins, trial jurist. Both Collapsed Both women collapsed when the guns the self-same guns they had used to shoot men were produced in court. In each case the trial Judge charged the jury to bring in one of four verdicts murder, first or second, manslaughter, first, or acquittal.

Judge Collins said justifiable homicide in protecting herself against attack could mean acquittal for Vera, if the jurors believed her story. Justice Cropsey said Lillian Raizen could be acquitted if the Jurors believed she was insane when she killed. Both cases attracted considerable public interest and large crowds of the curious tried to get into the courtroom to hear the spicy testimony. Trial judges in both cases were alike in their complete disregard for the crowd. Throngs of people stood outside the Brooklyn courthouse all night, waiting for the Raizen verdict.

But only a handful of spectators was in General Sessions while a blue ribbon jury took three hours to decide Vera was not guilty. Four expert psychiatrists testified that Lillian Raizen killed because she had been driven temporarily in sane, brooding over the doctor who itteefi emy fer long term in Bedford Hills Prison for shooting a man to death, and eligible for parole a year from this Spring. In some instances, the cases of the two women are similar. In many, they are vastly dissimilar. Fourteen long years separate the rases, but the underlying principle involved knows no time limit both women sincerely felt they had been morally wronged.

One Was a Bride Vera Stretz. a single girl, admittedly shot to death her married lover, Df. Fritz Gebhardt. German economist, visiting in itlus country. Lillian Raizen, a bride of seven months, admittedly srot to death Dr.

Abraham Glickstein, Williamsburg physician, also married, who. the claimed, had ruined her life. So far as the shooting went, the Similarity was there. Both were indicted for first degree murder. Vera beat the charge.

Lillian was found guilty of second degree murder, also by a blue ribbon jury, and sentenced to 20 years to life by Supreme Court Justice James C. Cropsey. That was in February, 1923. With time off for good behavior, she will be paroled in March, 1937. District Attorney William F.

31. Geoghan has already written to- the Parole Board recommending her release when she has served the minimum requirement. About Same Aige The two women were about the Same age. Vera was jast 32 when she went to trial three weeks ago. Mrs.

Raizen was 29 at the time of her trial in 1923. Both were serious and studious. Vera was a college graduate. Mrs. Raizen had been well educated and preferred lectures and concerts at the Academy of Music to Broadway's hot spots.

The mothers of both girls were dead. Their fathers were well-to-do. and kfnd. Lillian Raizen's father, Jacob Schaeffer, had his own business. Vera's father Is a musician and once conducted his own orchestra.

Lillian Raizen and Vera Stretz were well brought up women, from pood families and devoted to them. Vera is very pretty, in spite of the photographs taken of her during the trial. Her fluffy hair Is naturally blond and naturally curly. Her blue eyes are rather light and her face had an unhealthy prison pallor. Besides she had taken on weight during the six months she was in jail awaiting trial.

Lack of exercise and the starchy diet added many pounds, which gave the girl a set look and made her older than the good looking girl arrested last November when Gebhardt was shot in Beekman Towers Hotel. But her beauty is a natural beauty that will come back when life resumes Its happier state. Improved by Prison Lillian Raizen was not a good looking defendant. Her dark brown eyes were her best feature, but they were obscured by heavy tortoise shell glasses. Her skin was sallow; her mouth large and heavy.

She was too thin. Prison has improved Lillian Raizen, it is reported. Those who have been at Bedford Hills say she is plumper and has lost that worried, harassed look that was the most noticeable part of her face. She has been a model prisoner and has taken part in the prison shows, even to composing songs and singing them In musical productions. Lillian Raizen had a lovely singing voice, but witnesses at her trial testified that a few months before she shot Dr.

Glick-stein she would start to sing and break off in the middle of a song. She sang the songs her mother composed. In another respect, Lillian Raizen and Vera Stretz were similar. They both shot, admitted it and then regretted it. On the witness stand, fighting for her life.

Vera Stretz told a startled courtroom: "When you love as intensely as I did, you don't stop loving a man in a minute." While she was In Raymond Street Jail awaiting trial, Lillian Raizen said she would give her eyesight to take back the shot that killed Dr. Glickstein. The serious-minded Lillian Raizen and the studious Vera Stretz were both terribly impressed by the brilliance of the men they shot. "He was very, very brilliant," Vera said on the stand. "Dr.

Glickstein had the greatest Scene 3, In which we note the undersigned surrounded by: four neighbors' children of the annoying age, screaming jollily in individual octaves; two other children of about the same ages tumbling and shrieking; a neighbor's child's dog barking in a friendly sort of way, and a doorbell trying to be heard. The undersigned, conscious of his Phleg-maticism, remains calm though gnashing all teeth. In the fourth and final scene, all Is quiet. The undersigned is sitting. Nearby his Relative is bustling around, and also chatting.

The Relative chats: "I do think, dear, it's about time you dropped in at the tailor's to try on that Spring suit." "I don't care to be annoyed," is the reply. "You annoyed!" the Relative persists, unwisely. "Why, Mr. Phlegmatic!" Instantly everything goes black before the undersigned and he shout (in that calm way he has) that if any one any-one-at-all just dares to MENTION the phleg The record bore out the high opinions Vera and Lillian had for the men they shot. Gebhardt was a Ph.D., had been connected with large industrial firms in his native country and had a reputation as a scholarly man as well as a charming person.

Dr. Glickstein was credited with being an excellent physician, well thought of among his colleagues, though he had once served a prison term for selling narcotics a violation of the Hippocratlc oath as wpII as the law, But the warden at Atlanta was among those who petitioned for his'release to the President. Dr. Glickstein had treated and cured the warden's wife, who had long been ailing, it was reported at the time. Circumstances Varied The circumstances of the two killings were not alike.

Mrs. Raizen fired only once. Vera fired four times. Mrs. Raizen purchased the gun in Florida seven or eight days before the shooting and concealed it In a pocket sewed in her sable furpiece for that very purpose.

She went to the doctor's office on Bedford and with half a dozen patients waiting in an outer room, fired the fatal shot and then escaped. Two days later she surrendered herself to the district attorney. The details of Vera's shooting are still fresh enough in the public mind not to need repeating, save that she went into Gebhardt's room in the Beekman Towers Hotel and shot him to death. It was a struggle to protect herself from an unnatural attack, the girl contended. Vera's gun was bought five years before she had ever met Dr.

Gebhardt and he had it in his possession five months before the shooting, she testified. In spite of the similarities in the had betrayed her and held such a hypnotic influence over her. They were the leading alienists of these parts, hired by the defense soon after her arrest. Two other experts also doctors of fine reputation and splendid experiencetestified for the State that Lillian Raizen was sane at the time of the trial and was sane at the time she killed Glickstein. The expert testimony consumed several hours of court time and the divergent opinions of reputable alienists probably caused confusion in the minds of the Jurors.

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