CHARGE OF MURDER
DRINK GIVEN TO MAN. ALLEGED HOSPITAL STATEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Brisbane, Feb. 15. John Thomas McQuade, aged 39, a 1 rison 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 go she was dead.” A sensation was caused at Rockhampton by the discovery of a young woman’s almost nude body in a car at the rear of a city boarding-house, stated a Brisbane message on January 16. 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 and the man later went to his boardinghouse and became violently ill. He was placed under police surveillance.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1935, Page 14
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