Juro ABE, a comrade of Nakanishi, recollected the Shinsengumi later and told that Taro SAHARA who had called himself Shinpachiro SHINOZAKI at that time was killed by Nakanishi.
新選組の後の話に、新選組在籍時、篠崎慎八郎と称していた佐原太郎が中西の手によって、殺害されたと同胞の阿部十郎が語っている。