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THE cruel murder of Mr. Rand and Lieut. Ayerst threw the Anglo-Indian community into a state of panic. The psychological day of the Jubilee selected by the murderer for his deed, raised suspicion in the Anglo-Indian mind that the murder was the result of a deep-laid plot by the Poona Brahmins. When the murderer made good his escape, the Anglo-Indians vented their feelings of revenge in an attack on the Indian press which, by its "seditious writings," was considered to have fanned the people into frenzy. They clamoured for a very wide use of Sec. 124A of the Penal Code. They declared their misgivings about the suitability