During the 1849 truce between the Hungarian revolutionaries and the Transylvanian Romanians led by Avram Iancu, on May 6, the major adventurer Imre Hatvani with a detachment of Hungarian revolutionaries surprised and disarmed the Romanians in Abrud. On May 7, the prefects Petru Dobra and Ioan Buteanu were taken as prisoners. Dobra was shot at Abrud, and Buteanu was sent to Brad and jailed. On May 19, Major Hatvani withdrew from Abrud to Brad, then through Baia de Criș and Hălmagiu to Gurahonț. Hatvani hanged Buteanu without trial on 23 May 1849 at Josesel.