From the Collinsville News, Volume 19, Number 47, May 11, 1945
Plainview was the scene of a double tragedy last Friday, when B. D. Wisner, 53, killed his close friend, Green Bogle Everett, 64, and then turned the gun on himself and took his own life.
The scene of the act was at Wisner's store. As far as we have been able to learn Mr. Everett went to the store, and when asked what he wanted, told the proprietor there wwas no hurry, to finish what he was doing, whereupon Mr. Wisner walked around to the his cash register, where he had a pistol lying on the counter, took it up and fired twice at Everett, missing him with the first shot, the second killing him.
No cause for the tragedy has been established, other than Mr. Wisner's health wasn't good and according to an attending physician he was suffering from a blood-clot on the brain and would not have lived but a little while had this not have happened. The two men had been the best of friends for many years, and as far as anyone know, no hard feelings had arisen between them.
Mr. Wisner is the father of 2 daughters, and Mr. Everett has several children. The men were neighbors; the deed is a mystery to the people of that section.
This is verbatim from the Collinsville News, May 11, 1945. There are a few discrepancies between this and my earlier posting about my grandfather's murder by his best friend, Mr. Bob Wisner, who was also his next door neighbor.
