ACCUSED OF MURDER

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 December 1930, Page 9

ACCUSED OF MURDER

HUSBAND STABBED BY WIFE. LONDON, November 2. Dorothy Hilda Narbett, 29, was remanded until Monday at Llangadock (East Carmarthenshire) Police Court yesterday, charged with the murder of her husband, Oswald Narbett, a rural postman, who died outside his cottage from a stab in the heart. Mr G. Porter, for the prosecution, said that when two visitors called at Narbett’s cottage on Sunday, October 12, the couple, with their two children, seemed quite happy. When one of them, a man named Jones, had just left, he heard a scream, saw Narbett’s little girl running after him, and re turned to find Narbett stabbed in the heart and dying on a piece of grass in front of the house. Mrs Narbett told neighbours that she was hurrying out of the doorway with a knife in her hand when she met her husband entering and accidentally stabbed him. Mr T. H. Powell, coroner for East Carmarthenshire, said tha. Mrs Narbett, in evidence at the inquest on her husband, stated that she had been married ten years and that her married life was very happy. Mrs Norbett also stated: “No cross word, dis-, pute or quarrel, had taken place between us for tyo years.’’ Dr William Thomson Lawson, of Llangadock, said that it was possible that the heart wound, which was one and a-half to two inches deep, might have been caused as described by Mrs Narbett.

Mr Porter: Is is more consistent with an accidental collision or an intentional blow? —Dr Lawson: I should say more consistent with direct violence, but 1 am bound to admi: the possibility of accident.