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Title查莊餘鵬自殺身死
Short title莊餘鵬自殺案
archiveID184
DateFriday 1 June 1945
Year1945
Author上海特別市第一警察局老閘分局; 上海地方檢察署
Role (author of)Police investigation; reporting of non-natural death; witness interrogation; collection of physical evidence; judicial inquest; medico-legal examination
Series Number/IDShanghai Municipal Archives
Box numberR44-2
File numberR44-2-5691
Number of pages38
Abstract

Dossier concerning Zhuang Yupeng (莊餘鵬), a 47-year-old male textile worker (織工) from Zhejiang, whose death in Shanghai on 1 June 1945 was investigated as suicide. The initial non-natural death report records his identity, age, native place, occupation, the place and time of discovery, and the subsequent police investigation. The dossier contains an unusually extensive investigative narrative and numerous witness interrogations reconstructing Zhuang's circumstances and activities before his death and examining his personal and household relationships.

Comment

Predominantly handwritten Chinese documents on printed police and judicial forms. At 38 pages, this is a comparatively substantial individual suicide dossier. It contains detailed police reconstruction, repeated witness interrogations, formal retention of the knife as physical evidence, judicial examination records, and a full medico-legal examination. The combination of the retained 小洋刀, the recorded throat injury, and the final finding of 自戕身死 provides unusually strong documentary evidence concerning the mechanism of suicide.

The extensive witness testimony explores Zhuang Yupeng's family, social, and personal circumstances before his death, but the surviving statements do not support reducing the suicide to a single clearly established motive. For catalogue purposes, it is therefore preferable to describe the contextual investigation without assigning a definitive causal explanation. The police death report appears to record the location as 黃山路784號, although the handwritten street name is somewhat difficult to read and should be treated cautiously.

Keywords (en)suicide; self-inflicted injury; throat cutting; self-inflicted throat wound; knife; small knife; physical evidence; textile worker; men; witness testimony; death investigation; judicial inquest; corpse examination; forensic medicine; police investigation;
Keywords (fr)suicide; blessure auto-infligée; section de la gorge; blessure auto-infligée à la gorge; couteau; preuve matérielle; ouvrier du textile; hommes; témoignage; enquête sur un décès; enquête judiciaire; examen du cadavre; médecine légale; enquête
SubjectSuicide; self-inflicted throat wound; physical evidence; death investigation; forensic examination
Place of eventShanghai 上海
Year of event1945
LanguageChinese
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