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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.
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.
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.
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