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Title查譚陳氏因與夫口角服毒自殺身死
Short title譚陳氏服毒自殺案
archiveID172
DateSunday 17 September 1944
Year1944
Author上海特別市第一警察局泰山分局; 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 numberR44-2-4421
Number of pages16
Abstract

Dossier concerning Tan Chenshi (譚陳氏), a 39-year-old woman, whose death in Shanghai in September 1944 was investigated as suicide by poisoning. The police documentation explicitly associates the suicide with a quarrel with her husband (與夫口角). After ingesting poison, she was taken for medical treatment but died at Guangci Hospital on Huangshan Road (黃山路廣慈醫院). The police death report records her identity, the place and time of death, and statements from persons connected with the case.

The dossier contains the initial request for a corpse examination, the police report on the non-natural death, a narrative account of the circumstances, witness interrogations, judicial documentation, and a detailed medico-legal examination. The forensic forms identify the deceased as 譚陳氏, aged 39, and systematically record external physical findings. The final medico-legal conclusion states 委係服毒身死—that death resulted from ingestion of poison.

Comment

Predominantly handwritten Chinese documents on printed police and judicial forms. This case is comparatively explicit regarding the immediate circumstances surrounding the suicide: the archival heading and police investigation connect the act with a domestic quarrel between the deceased and her husband. This makes marital conflict a documented contributing circumstance rather than a motive inferred solely from later testimony. The handwritten heading appears to specify the poisonous substance more narrowly, but the precise product or drug name is difficult to decipher with sufficient confidence; for catalogue purposes, the safer formulation is therefore 服毒自殺. The formal medico-legal conclusion likewise uses the general formulation 服毒身死. The poisoning itself appears to have occurred before hospitalization, whereas the recorded place of death is 黃山路廣慈醫院.

Keywords (en)suicide; poisoning; suicide by poisoning; ingestion of poison; marital conflict; domestic quarrel; domestic relations; women; hospital treatment; death investigation; witness testimony; inquest; corpse examination; forensic medicine; police investigation;
Keywords (fr)suicide; empoisonnement; suicide par empoisonnement; ingestion de poison; conflit conjugal; dispute conjugale; relations familiales; femmes; traitement hospitalier; enquête sur un décès; témoignage; enquête judiciaire; examen du cadavre; médecine l
SubjectSuicide; poisoning; marital conflict; domestic relations; death investigation; forensic examination
Place of eventShanghai 上海
Year of event1944
LanguageChinese
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