Crime and Punishment

On 9th April, 1919, Miss Marcella Sherwood, Supervisor of the Mission Day School for Girls in Amritsar, was assaulted and beaten up by elements of a mob in a narrow Amritsar street called Kucha Kurrichhan. She was rescued by local Indians who hid her from the mob and then returned her to the fort. This incident had followed a period of civil unrest in Punjab after deaths by police firing and then by reprisals. Brigadier Reginald EH Dyer arrived in Amritsar on 11th April, 1919 to take command.

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