FATAL ASSAULT.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1922, Page 5

FATAL ASSAULT.

THE SYDNEY SENSATION. FURTHER DETAILS OF CRIME. NO TRACE OF LURDERER. _ By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received July 10, 7.50 p.m. Sydney, July 10. The Government and the Savings Bank commissioners have each offered £250 as a reward for evidence which will lead to the conviction of Kemmis’ murderer. The whole detective department is engaged, but so far without result. Further evidence appears to indicate that Kemmis’ assailant acted percipitately. The indications are that it was intended to attack him when he was en route from the train to his home in a quiet street in Wahroonga. It has been ascertained a motor-car was waiting there when the train arrived, and left immediately. The supposition is that the assailant’s instructions were to shadow Kemmis to Wahroonga, but finding him alone in the train, seized the opportunity to attack him and secure the keys, also taking five pound notes from him. The waiting motor-car must have made quick time back to Hornsby. The police also acted quickly. The train reached Wahroonga about 10.20 p.m., and the Hornsby police were -informed and visited the bank at 10.40 p.m. Finding the door open, and expecting the robbers to be inside, the police rushed in, but their quarry had gone. The robbers, finding themselves baulked through having only one of the two keys necessary to open the strong-room, bad not wasted any time making their escape. Kemmis was a nephew of the late Can .in Kemmis, and was prominent in church and philanthropic movements.—Aus.-N Z. Cable Assn.