The two Franciscan priests, Félix Minaya and Juan López, plus the "Yorktown" seaman George Arthur Venville, were kept as prisoners by Novicio, until the priests were rescued by the Americans on 3 June 1900, having re-garrisoned Baler earlier that year. Venville however was led to his death by the hands of Ilongots, before the American arrival. Furthermore, Novicio was put on trial for ordering the "Yorktown" sailor Ora B. McDonald buried alive after the ambush. Found guilty, Novicio faced a life sentence of hard labor in Bilibid Prison.