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Show mm ; Caught as She Stepped from a Freight Train Pueblo, Colo., Sept. .?. Laura Bell Ta lor. a 17-year-old girl w ho woa believed to have been drugged and kidnaped last Wednesday from the home of her ulep-father, Charles Palmer, Pal-mer, a r&nchman living east of heie, was arrested ut Horace, Kan., last night, as ;be stepped from a freight train on which he was beating her way with a male companion The glri was dressed in boy's clothing. Her companion made his esenpe Mystery sunounded the disappearance disappear-ance of the girl from her home. A botlb. partly filled with chloform. was found In the girl's room and there were eldenees of a struggle. All f her clothing remained undisturbed undis-turbed and apparently she had been can-led awny In le-r night dress. Pi sses spent several days scouring the surrounding country lor her supposed sup-posed al doctors. Th clrl declares she left home of her own fr.-e accord, because her stepfather compelled her to work in the fields and to herd Cattle. |