Twin Falls County ID Archives News.....Poison Taken Over Quarrel Kills Woman May 27, 1948
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Times News May 27, 1948
 Mrs. W.E. Coonts, 33, 140 Madison Street, died at 4:30 pm, Wednesday at the 
Twin Falls County hospital where she was rushed after drinking five ounces of 
a poisonous nicotine insecticide, allegedity at the height of a domestic 
quarrel.
 County coroner Dr. F Wayne Schow said a post mortem examination of the woman 
revealed she had taken several ounces of Black Leaf 40. Powerful insecticide 
containing sufficient quantities of nicotine to kill a human being. He gave a 
verdict of suicide.
 The taking of the poison by the mother of two children was not premeditated, 
according to Police Chief Howard W. Gillette, who investigated the death. He 
said according to evidence gathered from the woman's husband. Mrs. Coonts 
snatched up the bottle of insecticide at the culmination of an argument with 
Mr. Coonts. When she put the bottle to her mouth, Coonts said in his 
statement, he rushed to stop her, before he was able to take the bottle from 
her grasp, she had consumed part of it he added. Coonts said he then placed 
his wife in his automobile and rushed her to the hospital, where efforts to 
save the woman proved unsuccessful. Coonts told police his wife took the 
poison about 4 pm, she died a half hour later. 
POISON TAKEN OVER QUARREL KILLS WOMAN 
 Mrs. Coonts came to Twin Falls from Joplin, Missouri in 1946.Born May 13, 
1915 in Missouri.
 Survivors include her husband, William E. Coonts, Two daughters, Betty Gay 
Coonts and Donna Lynn Coonts, Longview, Wash; Her mother Mrs. Emma McKinsey, 
Brentwood, Calif; two brothers, Dan McKinsey and James McKinsey, Calif.; and 
four sisters, Mrs Cecil Crumbliss, Twin Falls; Mrs. Opal Evans, Goodman, 
Missouri; Mrs. Frieda Schuler, Ness City, Kansas, and Mrs. J.W. Easterline, 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
 Funeral services for Mrs. Coonts will be conducted at 11:am Saturday at the 
White Mortuary Chapel by the Rev. Mark C Cronenberger. Burial will be made in 
Sunset Memorial Park.


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