Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 14

4B (tre Jfttsacola Journal Saturday, August 2, 1975 Detectives Probe Daylight Rape, Beating occurred during daylight hours just over a month apart. DISASTER VICTIMS TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF FORESTERS There are emergency grants available to you for disaster relief. If you need money or know of other members who do please contact the membership office. 25 Walter Martin Avenue, Ft. Walton Beach, 243-21 34 or Bud Crichton, 4 Futura Gulf Breeze, 932-4592.

put out a pickup order on him and alerted other units. The woman was taken to Eglin AFB Hospital and treated for multiple bruises in the head region and later in the day helped officers prepare composites of her assailant Friday an agent from the local office of the FBI was checking with detectives to determine if there was any connection between the beating on the city's main street and the rape-murder on Okaloosa Island of Lynn Elizabeth Pyeatt, 19, Memphis, Tenn. Both incidents house. He went in and asked what was going oa He said he saw a man crouched on the floor in one of the rooms who stated that he and his old lady had just had an argument. The officer told the man to come on out and tell him about it.

The man turned and went into the next room as a naked woman came out of the bathroom saying she had been raped. The officer turned and saw the man running towards Brooks Street and immediately as part of a drill to give their men experience in fighting house fires. However, in the middle of the fire, an emergency developed in Mary Esther when a tanker truck overturned and the drill was terminated. Firechief Billy Lee said the house would have been completely burned down and the area policed up, except for the emergency. The rape victim told officers that her assailant did not say anything to her.

She said that he just grabbed her around the head and started beating on her and dragging her towards the house. Tne incident was seen by two youths who thought two men were fighting. They said they did not recognize the victim as a woman because of the military type rain gear she was wearing. The call to the police came as the department was deeply involved with emergencies developing from the flooding and rain and an officer did not get to the scene until almost five minutes later. He said he heard two normal sounding voices coming from the burned out DON'T OUR BIG CORONADO PAINT SALE IS STILL IN PROGRESS MERRITT'S PAINTS WALLPAPER 710 N.

ALCANIZ 432-3451 By BILL TENNIS Journal Staff Writer FORT WALTON BEACH -Two teams of detectives continued an around the clock investigation Friday into the daring daylight beating-rape of a female Air Force officer in the city's rain-swept business district Thursday morning. This is the second daylight sexual attack upon women in the area in the past five weeks. Near the end of June a 19-year-old Memphis, Tenn. woman was beatened and sexually assaulted on Okaloosa Island and died as a result. That incident is under active investigation by the FBI, sheriffs office and the Florida Department of Criminal Law Enforcement.

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According to the detectives, an Air Force officer stationed at Eglin AFB was walking from her room at the Sheraton Mi- ramar towards a downtown bookstore when she was seized. "The man grabbed her with a headlock with his left arm and began smashing her in the face I with his right fist as he dragged her between the buildings on '-main street said Vesey. Vesey said the man dragged her from the sidewalk on Mira- cle Strip Parkway, across Brooks Street and to a burned- out shell of a house just east of the Lucky Strike Bowling I Lanes. The house is owned by Dr. Joe Wilson and had been con-I demned.

Two weeks ago the city fire department set a fire there Father, Son Die In Crash BAY MINETTE, Ala. A 'small, single engine plane crashed in a wooded area near here Friday killing the pilot and his 10-year-old son. His wife and two daughters narrowly escaped death only I because the pilot would not allow them to fly with him because of reported bad according to police. All five had originally planned to take the flying vacation. In-; stead, the wife and two girls drove to their destination in Lakeland.

Officers said the body of the pilot, identified as George H. Viance of Kemah, was found near the cockpit of the Beachcraft Bonanza. The body of his son was recovered about 150 yards away, according to Baldwin County Chief Deputy Jim Anderson. 1 Officials said the plane was reported on a flight from Houston, Tex, to Lakeland. It went down in a sparsely settled area about 15 miles west of Bay Minette.

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