Izo OKADA, Toranosuke SENYA, and Kinosuke IGARASHI from Tosa, and Chuzaburo TERAJIMA joined from Choshu, and they split up to take both of the men in and kill them, but they did not kill because of the pleas of their family to spare their lives, and because of their class as townsmen; the two men were put on public display alive, by being tied naked on to a stake which was used for exposing cotton on the riverside of Kamo-gawa River.
土佐からは岡田以蔵・千屋寅之助・五十嵐幾之助らが、長州からは寺島忠三郎らが加わり、手分けして両名を連行して殺害しようとしたが、家族の助命嘆願もあり町人でもあることから殺すことはせず、加茂川河岸の木綿を晒す杭に両名を裸にした上で縛り付け、生き晒しにした。