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Title查成永美吞服砒霜自殺
Short title成永美服砒霜自殺案
archiveID169
DateFriday 28 July 1944
Year1944
Author上海特別市第一警察局閘北分局; 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 numberR44-2-4218
Number of pages12
Abstract

Dossier concerning Cheng Yongmei (成永美), a 28-year-old man, whose death in Shanghai in July 1944 was investigated as suicide by poisoning. The police documentation identifies the substance as 砒霜 (arsenic) and treats the case as deliberate ingestion with suicidal intent. The death report records that Cheng died on 28 July 1944 at the Chinese Red Cross Hospital on Huashan Road (華山路中國紅十字會醫院).

The dossier contains the police report on the non-natural death, a narrative investigation of the circumstances surrounding the poisoning, witness interrogation, correspondence requesting judicial examination, and a detailed medico-legal examination of the corpse. The subsequent forensic examination records no significant external traumatic injuries relevant to the cause of death. The final medico-legal conclusion states 委係服毒身死—that the deceased died as a result of ingesting poison.

Comment

Predominantly handwritten Chinese documents on printed police and judicial forms. The archival heading specifies 砒霜 as the poison ingested, while the final medico-legal conclusion uses the broader formulation 服毒身死. The file therefore provides both a police classification of the incident as suicide by arsenic ingestion and a forensic confirmation of poisoning as the physiological cause of death. The handwritten investigation and witness testimony examine Cheng Yongmei's personal circumstances and events preceding the suicide, but the surviving material does not establish a single motive clearly enough for inclusion in the catalogue metadata. The documentation distinguishes the circumstances of the poisoning from the place of death, which was the Chinese Red Cross Hospital on Huashan Road.

Keywords (en)suicide; poisoning; arsenic; arsenic poisoning; suicide by poisoning; ingestion of poison; men; death investigation; inquest; corpse examination; forensic medicine; police investigation; Chinese Red Cross Hospital; Huashan Road
Keywords (fr)suicide; empoisonnement; arsenic; empoisonnement à l'arsenic; suicide par empoisonnement; ingestion de poison; hommes; enquête sur un décès; enquête judiciaire; examen du cadavre; médecine légale; enquête de police; hôpital de la Croix-Rouge chin
SubjectSuicide; arsenic poisoning; death investigation; forensic examination
Place of eventShanghai 上海
Year of event1944
LanguageChinese
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