On September 5 Villa had Fathers Juan Recio and Buenaventura Macia given fifty blows each, although Father Juan was ill.

Villa then went to Lalloc, where other priests were imprisoned.  On September 6 he demanded money of them, causing them to be kicked and beaten.  Father Angel was beaten in an especially cruel manner for the apparent purpose of killing him, after which he was thrust into a privy.  Father Isidro Fernandez was also fearfully abused.  Stripped of his habit, and stretched face down on the floor, he was horribly beaten, and was then kicked, and struck with the butt of a revolver on the forehead.

A little later the priests were offered their liberty for a million dollars, which they were of course unable to furnish.  Meanwhile the torture continued from time to time.

On August 30 Tuguegarao was taken by the Insurgents without resistance.  Colonel Leyba promptly proceeded to the convento and demanded the money of the friars as spoil of war.  He found only eight hundred pesos in the safe.  Father Corujedo was threatened with death if he did not give more.  Other priests were threatened but not tortured at this time.  The prisoners in the jail were liberated, but many of them had promptly to be put back again because of the disorder which resulted, and that same evening Leyba was obliged to publish a notice threatening robbers with death.

At midnight on September 3 Father Corujedo was taken from the convento by Captain Diego and was again asked for money.  Replying that he had no more to give, he was beaten with the hilt of a sabre and stripped of his habit, preparatory to being executed.  A mock sentence of death was pronounced on him and he was placed facing to the west to be shot in the back.  Diego ordered his soldiers to load, adding, “When I count three all fire,” but the fatal count was not completed.  Three priests from Alcala were given similar treatment.

The troubles of the priests imprisoned at Tuguegarao were sufficiently great, but they were augmented a thousand fold when Villa arrived on September 11.  He came to the building where they were imprisoned, bearing a revolver, a sabre and a great quantity of rattans.  He ordered the priests into the corner of the room in which they were confined, and beat those who did not move quickly enough to suit him.  He threatened them with a very rigorous examination, at the same time assuring them that at Aparri he had hung up the bishop until blood flowed from his mouth and his ears, and that he would do the same with them if they did not tell him where they had their money hidden.  There followed the usual rain of kicks and blows, a number of the priests being obliged to take off their habits in order that they might be punished more effectively.

Fathers Calixto Prieto and Daniel Gonzales, professors in educational institutions, he ordered beaten because they were friars.

Fathers Corujedo and Caddedila were beaten, kicked and insulted.  Both were gray-haired old men and the latter was at the time very weak, and suffering from a severe attack of asthma.  Father Pedro Vincente was also brutally beaten.