Dossier concerning Xu Zhongda (許仲達), a 40-year-old man from Fujian who died in Shanghai on 1 April 1949 after jumping from a building. The police investigated the death as a suicide and compiled a report on the non-natural death together with statements from persons acquainted with the deceased concerning his circumstances and behavior prior to the incident. The dossier also contains a prosecutorial inquest and a detailed examination of the corpse. The examination identifies the deceased as 許仲達, male, aged 40, native of Fujian. The final medico-legal conclusion states that he died from injuries to the head and cerebral concussion caused by a fall while alive (生前跌傷頭部腦震盪身死).