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Show Ull SLAIN WOMAN'S DIARY SOUGHT Husband Almost Mentally Unbalanced By Police Questioning. CL.EfVELA.ND, hlo, Oct. 2S. (By The Associated Pressl Prosecutor i Istrander ami deputy sheriffs of Lake county tonight announced they would question a young woman living near the woods When the mutilated body of Mrs. Hazel Burns was found late Wednesday, burled In a shallow grave, regarding a report that ih9 ' woman had heard Screams from the direction of the woods early Vod-l-nesday morning. A neighbor who gave the information to the sheriff said the p-r) had told of being awal:-cned awal:-cned by shrieks of terror Cleveland detectives at the same time announced they had begun a search for the diary of .Mrs. Burns, ; reported to contain passages which i would give a clue to the motive 1O4 ' the crime Search also is being made by Lake I county authorities for $2,700 which 1 Burps lalms he hid In his Cleve-1 Cleve-1 land home and was not found in a search by authorities, and for dla-monds dla-monds which Mrs uurns was said to have worn Authorities now Incline to the belief that possibly Mrs. ) Burns might have had tho money land diaries in her possession Wod- nesday and may have been the victim vic-tim of highwaymen Authorities have virtually abandoned aband-oned hope of securing a confession from Henry I. Burns, husband of the murdered woman. who Is lo ld In the Painesvllle jail charged charg-ed with the slaying. The prisoner Is a mental wreck after R5 hours of almost continuous questioning He was sent back to his cell today because be-cause authorities feared that further questioning might unbalance his mind. Burns steadfastly maintains his Innocence of the crime |