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Wouldn't one think the autopsy report of Jesse James in St. Joe would lie in the hands of Dr. Catlett superintendent of the lunatic asylum at St. Joseph and Corner Heddens who on Monday night made the post mortem examination of the remains of the dead man. There had to of been an autopsy report. Why was the autopsy kept quite and where are their written findings of the autopsy.
Dr. Catlett reports that the reports about the shooting were all wrong.
This brings questions of who covered the story at the house on the day Jesse was killed by the Ford Boys and who reported that the bullet went through his head.
The bullet which killed the man did not go through his head.
The boys must have clubbed the man with their revolver. Note that Dr. Catlett refers to the body as "The Man."
Catlett goes on to say that the cut on the side of his head was made with the trigger of a revolver and not by the bullet.
This kinda puts a twist to the events that took place on Lafayette street. If the Ford boys shot Jesse seems they would have wanted to get out of that house as fast as possible. If Bob got a direct hit why would there be a need to club Jesse with the trigger part of the gun. And wouldn't Zee have said that she walked in or heard her husband being clubbed. Who clubbed the man? Charlie? Bob?
At the time of the shooting the officers thought the bullet must have gone out of the head and into the wall or ceiling. Which makes me ask ths question? Wouldn't someone had looked for the bullet and wouldn't the bullet have shown up in the wall or the ceiling. That part of the story remains unclear,
Catlett states: "It never went there at all, and they need not look for it. We have it in a safe and sound and took it out of his head.
Catlett descrived how the shooting happened. He states "when Jesse James was shot he was only partially turned away from the boys and the ball went in sideways at one side of the head, back of the right ear, and then lodged just under the skin behind the left, and that is where we found it. The skull was badly shattered, more so than any I have seen for years. It was all torn to pieces, the bullet passing through the brain.
So the tourist attraction of the house where Jesse was suppose to have been shot has been run to make a profit off the name of Jesse James from a bullet in the wall that never existed.
There appear to be many conflicting stories of the 1882 shooting according to J Frank Triplett of his writings of
The Life, Times and Treacherous Death of Jesse James.
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Carol
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