MURDER CHARGE.
MAN FOR TRIAL. Received February 15, 11 a.m. BRISBANE, Feb. 15. John Thomas McQuade, aged 89, a prison warder, has been committed for trial at Rockhampton on the charge of murdering Phyllis Muriel Steiger. Detective Albeitz alleged that, in the hospital on January 16, McQuade said to him : “She gave me a drink and as soon ns I drank it 1 saw black ; I grabbed her by the throat and when I let go she was dead.” A sensation occurred at Rockhampton on January 16 due to the discovery of a young woman’s almost nude body in a car at the rear of a city boardinghouse. The victim, who had been strangled, was identified as Phyllis Reiger, aged 23. reported to have been a very popular girl.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 68, 16 February 1935, Page 8
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129MURDER CHARGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 68, 16 February 1935, Page 8
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