On the 25th Leyba arrived and after kicking and beating Father Garcia compelled him to give up $1700.

He then informed the priests that if it were not for Aguinaldo's orders he would kill all the Spaniards.
On the afternoon of the 24th three priests and a Spaniard named Soto arrived at Ilagan.

The following is the statement of an eye-witness as to what happened:-- "They led the priests to the headquarters of the commanding officer where the tyrant Villa, always eager to inflict suffering on humanity, awaited them.

The scene witnessed by the priests obeisant to the cruel judge was horrifying in the extreme.

Four lions whose thirst for vengeance was extreme in all, threw themselves, blind with fury, without a word and with the look of a basilisk, upon poor Senor Soto giving him such innumerable and furious blows on head and face that weary as he was from his past journey, the ill-treatment received at Angadanan and weighted down by years, he was soon thrown down by his executioners under the lintel of the door getting a terrible blow on the head as he fell; even this did not satisfy nor tame down those fierce-hearted men, who on the contrary continued with their infamous work more furious than before, and their cruelty did not flag on seeing their victim at their feet.