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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