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The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2)

CHAPTER VI
13/55

After the bloody scene was over he sacked the _convento_, even taking away the priests' clothes.
Villa also cruelly beat a Filipino, Quintin Agansi, who was taking care of money for masses which the priests wished to save from the Insurgents.
After Father Segundo had suffered torture and abuse for two hours he was obliged to start at once on a journey to Auitan.

The suffering priest, after being compelled to march through the street shouting "Vivas!" for the Republic and Aguinaldo, spent the night without a mouthful of food or a drink of water.
Father Deogracias Garcia, a priest of Cabagan Nuevo, was subjected to torture because he had sent to Hongkong during May a letter of credit for $5000 which belonged to the Church.

Villa and Leyba entered his _convento_ and after beating him ordered his hands and feet to be tied together, then passed a pole between them and had him lifted from the ground, after which two great jars of water were poured down his nose and throat without interruption.

[280] In order to make the water flow through his nose better, they thrust a piece of wood into the nasal passages until it came out in his throat.

From time to time the torture was suspended while they asked him whether he would tell the truth as to where he had concealed his money.


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