[8] Reiger turned 18 whilst living at "Myravie", with 50 guests attending a celebratory supper in Phyllis' honour on 2 April 1930.

[8] Reiger was initially employed as a babysitter for the Baker's young son Garrick but then began helping out in the bar.

[10] McQuade married May Ballinger at St Luke's Anglican Church in Rockhampton on the morning of 14 January 1935 before going to Yeppoon that afternoon where they spent the night.

[10] McQuade also told the court he was unable to remember anything until he woke up in hospital, and that included how he got back to the Campbell Street boarding house where he lived.

[10] However, Senior Sergeant Julius Henry Albeitz testified that McQuade had said during a bedside interview at the hospital: "She gave me a drink and as soon as I drank it, I saw black.

[14] The medical superintendent of Rockhampton Hospital, Dr James Charles Ross, said they he didn't see any symptoms that led him to believe McQuade had been poisoned.

[14] Reiger's body was found in the back of McQuade's car in the garage of Sarah Bean's boarding house at 105 Campbell Street at around 4:30am on 16 January 1935.

[15] During McQuade's murder trial, government medical officer Dr Daniel Patrick O'Brien told the court that when he had examined Reiger's body, it was still warm due to it being a hot night but rigor mortis was beginning to set in.

[14] He said he had observed fingernail marks underneath her chin on either side of the throat and found her lungs to be congested with blood.

[16] Senior Sergeant Julius Henry Albeitz stated that after seeing Reiger's body, he went to the hospital to interview McQuade.

[21] At the conclusion of his police court hearing on 15 February 1935, McQuade pleaded not guilty and was committed to stand trial for the wilful murder of Phyllis Muriel Frances Reiger.

A witness called by the defence during the second day of the trial was McQuade's colleague, prison warder Alexander Hargreaves, who claimed to have spoken to Reiger at the Excelsior Hotel the previous November.

[22] Brennan replied that they could not see a movie, telling the jurors that they had all their lives ahead of them to go to the pictures and that surely they could spare just one night.

[22] However, Brennan relented and permitted the jury members to attend a screening at a local picture theatre, on the condition that they were accompanied by the bailiff and police officers.

[24]Brennan would later infamously ban anyone from sitting in the public gallery during the 1947 Flora Prior murder trial in Rockhampton - a decision that attracted national press coverage.

[16] Talking about McQuade, Peter Reiger said that he seemed to be "a nice enough chap at times" who would often visit on Sunday evenings when he and Phyllis would have a "sing-song".

[16] However, he said that McQuade "was a jealous sort of man" who would threaten former prisoners from the gaol where he worked if they went into the Excelsior Hotel and talk to Phyllis.

"[16] Peter Reiger also expressed sympathy for May McQuade who described her as an "innocent victim" who he couldn't help feeling sorry for.

[35] They were both cremated at the Mt Thompson Memorial Gardens in Holland Park, where a commemorative plaque has been erected on a columbarium.