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Show Midwest Student Confesses Chloroform Sex Assault shoot." Driscoll stepped out with hia hands up. Tha lather called polica and then took Marilyn to a doctor, who told him she had been crtmt-nally crtmt-nally assaulted and chloroformed. Polica said DriscoU first denied but later admitted tha attack. Ha told police he picked up the sleeping sleep-ing child and carried her to tha storeroom by wsy of an outside stairway. Officers quoted Driscoll as saying say-ing that, when aha awakened, "he put a chloroformed rag over hei face. ANGOLA, Ind, Nov. 14 (INS) A 22-year-old engineering student stu-dent was held by police Monday in the chloroform and criminal attack at-tack of a -year-old girl in a storeroom store-room above ber father's restaurant restau-rant Police Identified the youth as Benedict L. Driacoll Jr., of Newport New-port R. I., a student of Trl-8tate Engineering- college m Angola. Driscoll was seised by Howard Morton, 42, father of the victim, Marilyn Mae Morton, after Morton Mor-ton investigated "a thump" he heard in the storeroom. The restaurant owner had left Marilyn asleep in the back of his car. while another daughter, Lois Ann, 11. was dosing In tha front' seat The car wss parked In front of the restaurant When Morton climbed up to the storeroom, he saw a man dart behind be-hind a post Morton said that when he called, "Come out or I'U Typhoon Kills 314 Filipinos MANILA, Nov. 14 (INS) A devastating week-end typhoon was disclosed Monday night to have left 821 persona dead or missins; in the southern Philippines, where 71,000 homes were destroyed by violent winds and torrential rains. It waa the third typhoon to hit the storm-battered archipelago in two weeks and raised to more than 100 the number of lives exacted by the tropical tempest since the first of the month. The casusltiea and damage inflicted in-flicted by the latest typhoon, the main fury of which struck northern north-ern Mindanao island, were announced an-nounced in Manila Monday night by President Elpidio Quirino. The president said the bodies of 814 known dead have been recovered, re-covered, while 507 other persons are missing and "presumed dead." He estimated 400,000 persons were made homeless in this newest new-est of a series of natural disasters visited upon the southern and central cen-tral Philippines. Prior to the typhoon that lashed Mindanao and neighboring areas Friday and Saturday, Quirino announced, an-nounced, heavy winds between Nov. 1 and 9 created "wide" damage dam-age in 04 towns spread over nine Philippine provinces. The president msde his announcement an-nouncement only a couple of hours after issuing a statement asserting assert-ing returns showed he hsd been decisively reelected in last Tuesday's Tues-day's balloting. Up until his announcement, an-nouncement, it had been believed that the southern Philippine typhoon ty-phoon was not comparable to the disastrous two storms of the preceding pre-ceding week In the central Philippine. Philip-pine. The president's statement revealed re-vealed the major proportions oX The week-end typhoon. |