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Title查蔡汪氏投河自殺身死
Short title蔡汪氏投河自殺案
archiveID138
DateFriday 8 October 1948
Year1948
Author上海市警察局水上分局; 上海仁濟醫院; 上海地方法院檢察處
Role (author of)Police investigation; medical certification; medico-legal investigation
Series Number/IDShanghai Municipal Archives
Box numberQ186-2
File numberQ186-2-52871
Number of pages19
Abstract

Dossier concerning Cai Wangshi (蔡汪氏), a 39-year-old woman who committed suicide by jumping into the river in the Bund area of Shanghai on 8 October 1948. The Shanghai Municipal Police Water Branch investigated the case and recorded the place of the incident as the Huangpu River in the Bund area (外灘一帶浦江). The file contains a death certificate issued by Lester Chinese Hospital (上海仁濟醫院), police reports and witness interrogations concerning the circumstances of the incident, correspondence requesting a judicial examination, and the subsequent prosecutorial inquest and corpse examination. The examination identifies the deceased as Cai Wangshi, female, aged 39, and concludes that she died from drowning while alive (生前溺斃身死).

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Predominantly handwritten Chinese documents on printed police and judicial forms, together with a bilingual Chinese-English medical certificate of death from Lester Chinese Hospital. The handwriting in several witness statements is difficult to decipher, but the deceased's name, sex, age, method of suicide, general location, dates, and medico-legal cause of death are clear.

Keywords (en)suicide; drowning; jumping into river; Huangpu River; Bund; death investigation; inquest; corpse examination; forensic medicine; police investigation; Shanghai; women
Keywords (fr)suicide; noyade; suicide par immersion; fleuve Huangpu; Bund; enquête sur un décès; enquête judiciaire; examen du cadavre; médecine légale; enquête de police; Shanghai; femmes
SubjectSuicide; drowning; death investigation; forensic examination
Place of eventShanghai 上海
Year of event1948
LanguageChinese
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