Prison City Murders – Case 12 – Just Because She Was There



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Pacific Stars and Stripes Newspaper:

Dateline: Camp Zama, Japan. November 22nd, 1953.

Susan Rothschild, 9, daughter of Col and Mrs. Jacquard H. Rothschild, Chicago, Armed Forces Far East chemical officer, was found unconscious in an empty drainage moat near here yesterday and was pronounced dead on arrival at the 8169th Army Hospital a few minutes later.

The child was found by her father in an earthen moat, about two or three feet deep but empty, behind the Sagamihara fire station at 6:10 p.m. and was rushed to the hospital.

Investigation into the cause of death is being made at the Tokyo Army Hospital where the body was taken for autopsy.

Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://www.stripes.com

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https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/may/25/german_pows_buried_prison

https://www.startribune.com

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https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/419/256.html

https://www.britannica.com/science/artificial-respiration

https://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org

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https://www.wikipedia.org

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, October 1964, book review by Matthew Meselson of Tomorrow’s Weapons, Chemical and Biological, author Jacquard Hirschorn Rothschild

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