WILL STAND TRIAL.
Prison Warder Charged With Murder. GIRL STRANGLED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 15, 1 p.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. John Thomas M’Quade, aged 39. a prison warder, was committed for trial at Rockhampton on a charge of murdering Phyllis Muriel P.eiger, a popular Rockhampton girl. Detective Albeitz alleged that in hospital on January 16 M’Quade 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.” The discovery on January 16 of the almost nude body of Phyllis Reiger, aged 23, in a motor-car at the rear of a city boarding-house caused a sensation in Rockhampton. On the previous evening she had been seen in the company of a man who later went to his boarding-house, where he became violently ill.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20540, 15 February 1935, Page 1
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146WILL STAND TRIAL. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20540, 15 February 1935, Page 1
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