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.
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