Robert A.
Harrison, John McNab, James Paterson and John Paterson.
The first prisoner placed in the dock was Col.

Robert B.Lynch, who stated that he had no connection with the Fenian Army, but had accompanied the expedition as a reporter for the Louisville _Courier_.
A large number of Canadian residents of Fort Erie and vicinity, however, testified that they had seen him wearing a sword and in command of a body of Fenian troops at that place.

The evidence of his guilt was so overwhelming that the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and Colonel Lynch was sentenced to be hanged on the 13th of December.

He received the sentence with composure and was removed back to the jail.
Rev.John McMahon was then placed on trial.

He claimed that he had only went with the Fenians in a spiritual capacity, and to look after the wounded and dying.