WATCH: The Hornsby train murder mystery of 1922

More than a century on from the murder of Francis Kemmis, the case remains unsolved.

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Huw Bradshaw
November 11, 2025

It was a Friday night in Hornsby, and bank manager Francis Kemmis was preparing to make his short commute home to Wahroonga via train. Yet Kemmis would never make it home that night, because by the time he reached Wahroonga station, he had been fatally attacked.

Here’s how the upper North Shore came to be home to one of Sydney’s greatest unsolved murder mysteries.

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