CHARGE OF MURDER
PRISON WAkDER COMMITTED. DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN. ACCUSED’S ALLEGED STATEMENT (United Press Association—Cepyright) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) BRISBANE,, This Day. John Thomas McQuade, a prison warder, aged 39, was committed for trial at Rockhampton -on a charge of (having murdered Phyllis Muriel Reigter. if Detective Abbeitz alleged that m the hospital on January 16 McQuade said to him: “She gave me a drink, and as soon as I drank it I saw black. I grabbed her by the throat, and whfen I let go she was dead.”
A Brisbane message dated'January 16 stated: A sensation was caused at Rockhampton by the discoyery of a young woman’s almost nude body in a car at the back of a boarding-house. The victim, who had been strangled, was identified as Phyllis Reigter, aged 23, who is reported to’have been a very popular girl. She was seen in the i company of a man last night, and the man later went to his boarding-house and became violently ill. He is now under police surveillance.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 107, 15 February 1935, Page 5
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