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Show MORMON MERCHANTS ROBBED. . Mexican Bandits Demand $10,000 and Threaten Men With Death. El Paso, Texas. It is reported here that a squadron of cavalry has been sent from the field headquarters of the American punitive expedition to Colonia Juarez, eighteen miles from this camp, to protect several hundred American Mormon colonists there, following the robbery of Alonzo and Adelbert Taylor, Mormon merchants, by four Mexicans. Threatening death, the robbers demanded $10,000 of the Taylors and held one brother prisoner pris-oner while two of their number took the other to the Taylor store and secured se-cured several hundred dollars. While these two Mexicans were attempting to secure more money from another wealthy resident of Juaie. the prij-oner prij-oner escaped. Learning of this, the robbers took to the hills to avoid capture. |