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Title查袁清郎服黃鏹水自殺身死
Short title袁清郎服黃鏹水自殺案
archiveID164
DateSaturday 11 November 1944
Year1944
Author上海特別市第一警察局盧家灣分局; 上海地方檢察署
Role (author of)Police investigation; reporting of non-natural death; witness interrogation; judicial inquest; medico-legal examination
Series Number/IDShanghai Municipal Archives
Box numberR44-2
File numberR44-2-2912
Number of pages14
Abstract

Dossier concerning Yuan Qinglang (袁清郎), a 33-year-old man from Jiangsu, who attempted suicide in Shanghai in November 1944. The police investigation records that on 11 November 1944 Yuan ingested 黃鏹水, a corrosive acid, with suicidal intent (意圖自殺). He was taken to Guangci Hospital (廣慈醫院) for treatment. Despite medical intervention, his condition did not improve, and he died there on 25 November 1944. The police subsequently reported the death and requested a formal judicial examination.

The dossier contains the police death report, narrative investigation, interrogation records concerning the deceased and the circumstances of the suicide attempt, correspondence with the prosecutorial authorities, and a detailed medico-legal examination of the corpse. The corpse-examination record identifies the deceased as 袁清郎, aged 33 and native of Jiangsu. The final medico-legal conclusion records 無外傷,經醫治無效身死—no external injuries were found, and death followed unsuccessful medical treatment

Comment

Predominantly handwritten Chinese documents on printed police and judicial forms. This case is noteworthy because death did not occur immediately after the suicidal act: Yuan ingested the corrosive substance on 11 November, underwent treatment at 廣慈醫院 for approximately two weeks, and died on 25 November; the formal judicial examination followed on 26 November. The police material explicitly characterizes the ingestion of 黃鏹水 as an attempted suicide, whereas the final medico-legal conclusion is more cautious, emphasizing the absence of external injuries and death after unsuccessful medical treatment. The surviving statements investigate Yuan's personal and family circumstances, but a single precise motive for the suicide should not be assigned without further certainty.

Keywords (en)suicide; poisoning; corrosive acid; strong acid; Huang qiangshui; ingestion of poison; attempted suicide; delayed death; hospital treatment; men; death investigation; inquest; corpse examination; forensic medicine; police investigation; Guangci Hospital
Keywords (fr)suicide; empoisonnement; acide corrosif; acide fort; ingestion de poison; tentative de suicide; décès différé; traitement hospitalier; hommes; enquête sur un décès; enquête judiciaire; examen du cadavre; médecine légale; enquête de police; hôp
SubjectSuicide; corrosive poisoning; attempted suicide; delayed death; death investigation; forensic examination
Place of eventShanghai 上海
Year of event1944
LanguageChinese
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