Dossier concerning Song Zhangshi (宋張氏), a 29-year-old woman from Pudong, whose death in Shanghai in August 1944 was investigated by the Shanghai Special Municipality Third Police Bureau as a suicide by poisoning. The police forwarded the corpse for formal examination and supplied a corpse-report form identifying the deceased, her sex, age, native place, and circumstances of death. The dossier contains police correspondence, the initial corpse report, handwritten statements from relatives and other persons concerning the deceased's family circumstances and events preceding her death, prosecutorial documentation, and a detailed judicial examination of the corpse. The medico-legal examination conducted by the prosecutorial authorities records the physiological cause of death as 服毒身死—death following ingestion of poison.
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