 Muguara refused to deliver more captives on the grounds that they were held in the rancherías of other chiefs over which he had no authority.The white captive was Matilda Lockhart, a 16-year-old girl who had been held prisoner for over a year and a half.Mary Maverick, who helped care for the girl, wrote almost sixty years after the event that Lockhart had been beaten, raped and had suffered burns to her body.