ALLEGED MURDER OF GIRL
PRISON WARDER CHARGED BRISBANE, February 15. John Thomas McQuade, aged 39. a prison warder, was committed for trial at Rockhampton on a charge of murdering Phyllis Muriel Reiger. Detective Albeitz alleged that in 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 when I let her go she was dead." LA message from Brisbane on January 16 said: A sensation was caused at Rockhampton by the discovery of a young woman's almost nude body in a car at the back of a boardinghouse. The victim, who had been strangled, was identified as Phyllis Reiger, aged 23, who is reported to have been a Very popular girl. She was seen in the 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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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 16 February 1935, Page 13
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