By 7 June the authorities had regained control of the town through force with up to 24 of the protesters killed. Twenty-six people were arrested and put on trial for taking part in the revolt. Several were sentenced to terms of imprisonment, others sentenced to penal transportation to Australia, and two were sentenced to death by hanging – Lewis Lewis ("Lewsyn yr Heliwr") for Robbery and Richard Lewis ("Dic Penderyn") for stabbing a soldier (Private Donald Black of the Highland Regiment) in the leg with a seized bayonet.