an antique , black carriage , pulled by four handsome , black stallions , carried the lifeless body , which lay in a sumptuously padded , open coffin , such that office workers on the elevated floors above wall street could look directly down upon the corpse , the face of which had been heavily made up by a team of undertakers in order to obscure the massive disfigurement caused by a bullet fired from a tokarev svt-40 snipers rifle , which had entered chins head just behind his left ear socket and re-emerged neatly in the centre of the artificial dimple in his chin , that several years earlier a team of plastic surgeons had spent many hours , during the course of several operations , working upon , in order to give the appearance-obsessed architect a kirk douglas .