THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2162, sig. 109-8/45

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(f) identification of the persons who first took the action. Persons who first perceived the action must be ensured for the subsequent questioning after a short questioning. It is also necessary to maintain the demand for persons who have seen or spoken to the victim before the crime, as well as for those who can provide information about traffic and customs; it is necessary to ensure that these witnesses of crime and good repute are unable to communicate with each other; they must therefore be kept off-limits. (g) the identification of the persons who first visited the crime scene; persons who have entered the crime site before the organé's appearance must be asked in detail about the purpose of the crime location; the traces they have produced must be determined; 2. measures taken by the investigative bodies of the willingness to commit murder (Commission). The investigative bodies shall continue, following the division and instructions of the head of the homicide department (- Commission) (a) the measures referred to above, - interception of witnesses and information persons (neighbours, relatives, acquaintances, house dwellers, etc.) - b) determination of (1) whether there is murder or suicide on the basis of, for example, (a), incisions; In this case, the following findings (aa) can speak for suicide: (a1) strong blood defilement of the front of the body, since the cut-off of suicides is always in standing and sitting, but almost never carried out in lying down, (a2) particularly blood-stained hand which led the knife, as a result of the carotid artery beam, ( a3) the absence of defensive injuries, (b) the presence of the several superficial cuts due to timidity etc.; (bb) allow suspicions for murder: (a1) the back of the victim is heavily stained with blood (neck cutting by foreign hand can be done badly at the standing victim, but rather at the toppled to the ground; blood then usually flows backwards; body may also have been turned over), (a2) the hands of the sacrifice are often not heavily stained with blood, (a3) there may be defensive injuries (cuts on the hands or by defensive turning of the head), (a4) usually there are not several cuts, but only a deep cut wound can be detected; (b) blow injuries; in this case, the following findings (aa) can speak for suicide: (a1) the blow injuries are usually on the front of the head (at the vertex or at the temples), (a2) the injuries are usually numerous, not deep (tenaciousness) and stand closely together, (a3) the course of the injuries is in the same direction to each other; (bb) allow suspicions for murder: (a1) spread to other parts of the body, especially on the back of the brain (a 2) few wounds, but these with great force have been taught (a3) wounds caused by the victim's defensive movements and twists, crisscrossed in different directions to each other 13