sentences:  He is mentioned as having killed Veli Gega, a member of Ali Pasha's Supreme Council.In the summer of 1809 Katsantonis is said to have been struck down by a serious illness identified as smallpox, so he appointed his brother Kostas Lepeniotis ( or Kostas from Lepenou) to take over from him as leader of the Agrafa's klephts; according to tradition, when Ali Pasha heard this news, he sent an Ottoman army officer called Mühürdar to arrest Katsantonis in the cave where he was staying and being treated by a doctor called Thanasis Doufekias (); eventually, Katsantonis and his second brother, Yorgos Chasiotis ( or Yorgos from Chasia) were captured and were taken to the Pasha, who had them tortured to death.Katsantonis was executed in public by having his bones crushed with a sledgehammer.