WIDOW'S QUEER SUICIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1922, Page 19

WIDOW'S QUEER SUICIDE.

AFRAID HUSBAND'S ASSASSIN WOULD BE ACQUITTED." Two women committed suicide recently and Xew York Is discussing the noTel reasons they gave for doing so. The tragedies, though entirely unrelated, occurred almost simultaneously, and are believed to be without precedent in the motives alleged. In one case the widow of a prominent physician. Dr. Abraham Glickstein, threw herself from a bedroom window to the pavement because she feared that the woman who had murdered her husban.' would be acquitted.

Dr. Glickstcin was shot dead in his oflice some months ago by a veiled woman. A few days later ihe murderess surrendered to the authorities, making a full confession. She was the wife of Charles S. Halzen, _. toy manufacturer of Brooklyn.

The dead physician, she said, had hypnotised her into being bis mistress when she was quite young, and had used the same influence for perpetuation of the relations after her marriage to a husband whom she loved devotedly. Wetermined to liberate herself, she made an appointment to csee the physician in his office, and there shot lllm dead. Her trial is now impending.

I'ntil a few days ago she occupied the cell adjoining that of Miss Olivia Stone, .-i nurse charged with the murder jf Ellis KlDghead. Stone was acquitted amid remarkable manifestations of public sympathy. "If Stone goes free, the woman who murdered my husband will go free, too," in..ailed Mrs. Olickstetn. who also declared.

"All that any woman these days has to do Is to get a gun, kisli a man. aud then plead temporary insanity." to bear the prospect of seeing tbe killer of her busband go free she threw herself from a window.

The other case occupying the attention of the public is that of Mrs. Maude Fancher, the wife of a clerk, who first poisoned her two-year-old son Cecil, and then swallowed a dose of poison, because after attending a number of spiritualist lectures, she believed she could, from the "spirit world beyond," guide her hsuband to happiness and prosperity.

She wrote three Ion„ letters to her husband, both hefore and after her child died In her amis, p-otesting her sanity and her unutterable love- for him.