ATTEMPTED ARSON ADMITTED
Man Remanded At Napier (New Zealand Press Association) NAPIER, July 3. A workman, Tex Rexcie, aged 28, of Gisborne, today admitted charges of attempting to set fire to the Napier Intermediate School and attempting to set fire to a lunchroom in Napier railway yards. Rexcie pleaded guilty to both charges before Mr W. A. Harlow, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Napier He also pleaded guilty to converting to his own use a bicycle, valued at £l5: wilfully damaging a pane of glass, valued at £2. the property of C. and A. Odlin, Ltd., Napier; and wilfully damaging a pane of glass valued at £2 the property of Winstone. Ltd., Napier. The Magistrate remanded Rexcie in custody until next Friday
Senior Detective-Sergeant A Reid told the Court that Rexcle’s apparent reason for his actions was that he had been turned down when he had, applied for a job, and this had "made him wild.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28938, 4 July 1959, Page 14
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