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Title查陸善祥自縊身死
Short title陸善祥自縊案
archiveID168
DateMonday 26 June 1944
Year1944
Author上海特別市第一警察局虹口分局; 上海濟民醫院 (Shanghai Chinese General Hospital); 上海地方檢察署
Role (author of)Police investigation; reporting of non-natural death; medical certification; witness interrogation; judicial inquest; medico-legal examination
Series Number/IDShanghai Municipal Archives
Box numberR44-2
File numberR44-2-4073
Number of pages15
Abstract

Dossier concerning Lu Shanxiang (陸善祥), a male native of Fenghua (奉化), whose death in Shanghai in June 1944 was investigated as suicide by hanging. The police death report identifies the deceased as 陸善祥, male, and records the place of the incident as 北四川路小菜場 (the small market on North Sichuan Road). Police documentation places the case within the jurisdiction of the Hongkou branch of the Shanghai Special Municipality First Police Bureau.

The dossier contains a medical certificate from Shanghai Chinese General Hospital (上海濟民醫院) dated 26 June 1944, a police report on the non-natural death, statements concerning the circumstances preceding the death, correspondence requesting judicial examination, and a detailed medico-legal examination of the corpse. The hospital certificate records the deceased as male and aged 30, whereas the subsequent police and medico-legal documentation records him as 33 years old, indicating a discrepancy in the age reported by the different institutions. The formal corpse examination documents findings associated with the neck and concludes that the deceased died by hanging (自縊身死).

Comment

Predominantly handwritten Chinese documents on printed police and judicial forms, together with a bilingual Chinese-English medical certificate from Shanghai Chinese General Hospital. The archival and police documentation treats the case as 自縊 (suicide by hanging), while the medico-legal examination independently records the physical findings and concludes that death resulted from hanging. The dossier includes statements from persons acquainted with the deceased and police inquiries into his circumstances before death, but the surviving handwriting does not establish a single precise motive with sufficient confidence for inclusion in the catalogue metadata. An important documentary discrepancy concerns age: the hospital certificate gives 30 years, while the police and forensic records give 33 years. The latter age is preferable for the principal catalogue description because it is repeated in the formal death-investigation documentation.

Keywords (en)suicide; hanging; suicide by hanging; ligature; neck injury; men; death investigation; inquest; corpse examination; forensic medicine; police investigation; Shanghai Chinese General Hospital; North Sichuan Road; Hongkou
Keywords (fr)suicide; pendaison; suicide par pendaison; ligature; blessure au cou; hommes; enquête sur un décès; enquête judiciaire; examen du cadavre; médecine légale; enquête de police; Shanghai Chinese General Hospital; North Sichuan Road; Hongkou
SubjectSuicide; hanging; death investigation; forensic examination
Place of eventShanghai 上海
Year of event1944
LanguageChinese
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