Dossier concerning Yu Side (俞思德), a 20-year-old woman from Anhui, whose death in Shanghai in September 1944 was investigated as suicide by poisoning. The police corpse report records that she ingested poison at her residence and was subsequently taken for emergency treatment, but died despite attempts to save her. The dossier identifies her occupation as a student (讀書). The file contains police correspondence, statements concerning the circumstances preceding the poisoning, judicial documentation, a detailed medico-legal examination of the corpse, an evidence envelope, and an unusually extensive handwritten document associated with the deceased. The final medico-legal conclusion states explicitly: 驗得該女屍委係生前服毒身死—the woman was determined to have died from poison ingested while alive.
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