Victims
On the evening of 17 October ten prisoners were selected (five from the jail in Hannibal, five from the jail in Palmyra). None of them had any connection with the disappearance of Allsman; Willis Baker was in the Palmyra jail because his sons were said to be riding with Colonel Porter. He was also reported to have killed a Union neighbour in the previous year. All ten were executed on 18 October by a firing squad of thirty soldiers from the Second Missouri State Militia.
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