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).
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