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Title查陳吳氏用剪刀戳喉管自殺
Short title陳吳氏剪刀戳喉管自殺案
archiveID162
DateMonday 24 July 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; witness interrogation; medico-legal examination
Series Number/IDShanghai Municipal Archives
Box numberR44-2
File numberR44-2-2555
Number of pages19
Abstract

Dossier concerning Chen Wushi (陳吳氏), a 43-year-old woman from Anhui, whose death in Shanghai in 1944 followed a suicide attempt involving a self-inflicted throat wound with scissors. The police corpse report records that on 24 July 1944, at approximately 7 p.m., Chen used scissors to stab or cut her throat (用剪刀戳喉管自殺) at her residence on Fulüli Road (福履理路), no. 633. She was discovered and taken to Guangci Hospital (廣慈醫院) for treatment. She remained under medical care until 30 September 1944, when she died; the hospital then notified the police and the body was transferred for medico-legal examination. The dossier contains police correspondence, interrogation records and statements from family members concerning the deceased and the circumstances of the suicide attempt, followed by a detailed judicial examination of the corpse. The final medico-legal documentation records findings consistent with suicide and does not indicate evidence establishing homicide.

Comment

Predominantly handwritten Chinese documents on printed police and judicial forms. The deceased is identified as 陳吳氏, female, aged 43, native of Anhui, and her occupation is recorded simply as 婦人. An important feature of this case is the unusually long interval between the suicidal act and death: Chen wounded her throat on 24 July, survived for more than two months while undergoing treatment at 廣慈醫院, and died on 30 September; the formal medico-legal examination followed on 1 October 1944. The police interrogation material includes testimony from members of her family and investigates the circumstances behind the attempted suicide, but the surviving statements do not support reducing the case to a single clearly established motive. The catalogue record should therefore distinguish carefully between the date of the suicide attempt, the date of death, and the date of the inquest.

Keywords (en)suicide; attempted suicide; self-inflicted injury; scissors; throat wound; stabbing; delayed death; hospital treatment; women; death investigation; inquest; corpse examination; forensic medicine; police investigation; Guangci Hospital
Keywords (fr)suicide; tentative de suicide; blessure auto-infligée; ciseaux; blessure à la gorge; coup porté avec une arme blanche; décès différé; hospitalisation; femmes; enquête sur un décès; enquête judiciaire; examen du cadavre; médecine légale; enqu
SubjectSuicide; self-inflicted throat wound; delayed death; death investigation; forensic examination
Place of eventShanghai 上海
Year of event1944
LanguageChinese
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