Not satisfied with this, Villa compelled the suffering priest to kneel before him and kicked him in the nose, repeating the operation until he left him stretched on the floor half-senseless with his nose broken.

He next had both victims put in stocks with their weight supported by their feet alone.

While in this position soldiers beat them and jumped onto them and one set the governor's beard on fire with matches.

Father Diez was kept in the stocks four days.

He was then sent to Tuguegarao in order that personal enemies there might take vengeance on him, Villa bidding him good-by with the following words: "Go now to Tuguegarao and see if they will finish killing you there." Senor Perez was kept in the stocks eight days and it is a wonder that he did not die.
Upon the 25th of September Villa went to the _convento_ in Ilagan prepared to torture the priests, but he succeeded in compelling a number of them to sign indorsements in his favour on various letters of credit payable by the Tabacalera Company and departed again in fairly good humour, having done nothing worse than strike one of them.
Later, however, on the pretext that Fathers Aguado and Labanda had money hidden away, he determined to torture them with water.