Twin Falls County ID Archives News.....Bull Gores Aged Farmer To Death-  William LaBounty December 2, 1936
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Twin Falls Daily News December 2, 1936
 An 80-year-old Twin Falls farmer, William Henry LaBounty, was gored to death 
yesterday by the Guernsey bull that he had refused to sell two days before.
 Two stockmen, Smith Rosen and C.L. plummer, who had sought to buy the bull 
found the aged man's body when they went back to his farm about 9 o'clock 
yesterday morning.
 Life was extinct, they said, but the enraged animal was still trampling and 
goring the broken body.
 The aged man had gone alone to the corral where the bull was kept, either to 
feed the animal or to replace the ring in its nose which, officers were told, 
he had said was missing.
 Examination disclosed a multiple skull fracture and chest abrasions and 
lacerations.
         NO INQUEST
 Dr. H. L. Stowe, county coroner, said no inquest would be necessary.
 The body was taken to the Twin Falls mortuary.
 Arrangements for funeral services had not been completed last evening.
 Moving here from Sterling, Colorado, in 1929, Mr. LaBounty and his family had 
since resided at their farm home, a half mile East a quarter mile South of the 
Washington school.
 Born December 25, 1857, at Watseka, Illinois, Mr. LaBounty was engaged in 
farming most of his life.
 He is survived by his widow and daughter, Mrs. Iva Wilcox of Twin Falls. He 
leaves also an adopted daughter, Mrs. Lenore Dersham of Sterling Wyoming; 
three sisters, Mrs. Florence wood of Gillette, Wyoming, Mrs. Phil Huffman of 
Nelson, Nebraska and Mrs. May Fleisher of Illinois. A brother, whose name 
could not be learned, resided in the state of Washington.

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