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Title查楊新大投河自殺身死
Short title楊新大投河自殺案
archiveID145
DateTuesday 22 March 1949
Year1949
Author上海市警察局; 上海地方法院檢察處
Role (author of)Police investigation; medico-legal investigation
Series Number/IDShanghai Municipal Archives
Box numberQ186-2
File numberQ186-2-53399
Number of pages17
Abstract

Dossier concerning Yang Xinda (楊新大), a 49-year-old woman from Shanghai whose death was investigated as a suicide by drowning in March 1949. The file contains a police report on the non-natural death, handwritten witness and family statements concerning the circumstances preceding her disappearance and death, correspondence requesting judicial examination, a prosecutorial inquest, and a detailed examination of the corpse. The corpse examination identifies the deceased as 楊新大, female, aged 49, and records the location of the body in the Pudong area near 東溝楊家門. The final medico-legal conclusion states that Yang Xinda died from entering/falling into water while alive (生前落水身死).

Comment

Predominantly handwritten Chinese documents on printed police and judicial forms. The police investigation characterizes the case as suicide by entering the river (投河自殺), whereas the formal forensic conclusion is more limited, establishing death by drowning after entering the water while alive. The dossier includes testimony concerning Yang Xinda's family circumstances and possible reasons for the suicide, but several passages are difficult to decipher reliably and should not be reduced to a specific motive without further verification. The body-location field indicates the Pudong–Donggou–Yangjiamen area; the final characters of the handwritten locality are uncertain.

Keywords (en)suicide; drowning; suicide by drowning; river; death investigation; inquest; corpse examination; forensic medicine; police investigation; Pudong; women
Keywords (fr)suicide; noyade; suicide par noyade; rivière; enquête sur un décès; enquête judiciaire; examen du cadavre; médecine légale; enquête de police; Pudong; femmes
SubjectSuicide; drowning; death investigation; forensic examination
Place of eventShanghai 上海
Year of event1949
LanguageChinese
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