The autopsy was performed on March 13, 1889, at 10:00 AM in the back room of Bale’s Pharmacy & Surgery, which doubled as Dodge City’s only morgue. The report is handwritten in cursive on faded, onionskin paper. Dr. Harrison F. Bale, a 52-year-old graduate of the Rush Medical College (Class of 1861), was the attending physician and coroner. His tone is clinical, detached, and at times, remarkably modern.
He was impaled through the rectum with a meat hook and suspended a foot off the ground. Over three days, his captors—including notorious figures like "Mad Sam" DeStefano—shattered his kneecaps with bats, used cattle prods on his genitals, and burned him with blow torches. Discovery: william action jackson autopsy report
The autopsy of William "Action" Jackson , a 300-pound enforcer for the Chicago Outfit , revealed he died after enduring one of the most brutal torture sessions in American mob history. His body was found on , face forward in the trunk of his own Cadillac convertible abandoned on Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago. Autopsy and Physical Findings The autopsy was performed on March 13, 1889,
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