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Title查俞思德服毒自殺
Short title俞思德服毒自殺案
archiveID161
DateFriday 8 September 1944
Year1944
Author上海特別市第三警察局; 上海地方檢察署
Role (author of)Police investigation; reporting of non-natural death; judicial inquest; medico-legal examination
Series Number/IDShanghai Municipal Archives
Box numberR44-2
File numberR44-2-2406
Number of pages20
Abstract

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.

Comment

Predominantly handwritten Chinese documents on printed police and judicial forms. The deceased is consistently identified as 俞思德, female, aged 20, native of Anhui. The police investigation explicitly treats the death as 服毒自殺. Statements in the dossier examine her family circumstances and relations with her mother, but the evidence should be used cautiously when assigning a single motive. Particularly significant is the evidence section at the end of the file: a 證物封套 is followed by four pages of dense handwritten text apparently left by or associated with Yu Side, providing unusually rich first-person material for the circumstances surrounding the suicide. The corpse examination records several physical findings but ultimately establishes poisoning, rather than traumatic injury, as the cause of death.

Keywords (en)suicide; poisoning; suicide by poisoning; ingestion of poison; suicide letter; women; students; family conflict; death investigation; inquest; corpse examination; forensic medicine; police investigation
Keywords (fr)suicide; empoisonnement; suicide par empoisonnement; ingestion de poison; lettre de suicide; femmes; étudiantes; conflit familial; enquête sur un décès; enquête judiciaire; examen du cadavre; médecine légale; enquête de police
SubjectSuicide; poisoning; suicide letter; death investigation; forensic examination
Place of eventShanghai 上海
Year of event1944
LanguageChinese
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