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Show MORMON IS CAPTURED; IS HELD FOR RANSOM El Paso, Texas, March 17. Alfred Taylor, a resident of Colonla Chuchu-pam, Chuchu-pam, a Mormon colony, of northern Mexico, is being held as a prisoner by the Mexican rebels in Colonla Juarez. Juar-ez. Taylor is a member of a prominent promi-nent Mormon family and he Is bolng held In the hope that somo of his family will ransom him. , Oscar Allen, a Texan employed as watchman at the store at Pearson, In tho Mormon settlement, was shot and killed Sunday night by an unit known Mexican, and his body Is now on the way to the United States. The reign of lawlessness which exists iii the Mormon settlements Is the result of Villa's withdrawal of practically all of his men for the Torreon battle. bat-tle. When Castillo was captured he recalled his rebel troops and the entire en-tire Mormon district is now unguarded. |