They spent the night of March 21 as prisoners incommunicado. Their fate was sealed the following day in the connivance of the local leaders with the Spanish officials. At 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon they were herded to church and made to take confession. When they were brought back to the warehouse, Roman sent for his family. Eulogia and the children were barely allowed to see him. When they were finally permitted, Spanish marines who accompanied them rested a rifle at every shoulder of each child as they approached the prisoners‘ quarters.
