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was that Razoux Kühr's wife, fearing for her life, had fled to van der Hilst's house, and that Razoux Kühr showed up in his yard and shot him through the door. Razoux Kühr claimed that he had the rifle because was feeling suicidal over his wife's departure, and that he had only intended to talk to her when it went off by accident and killed van der Hilst. The court did not believe this story, but could not prove premeditation. He was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in prison.
178:. In the book he raged at the injustice of the Dutch legal system and hinted that the Indies might be better under English rule. The reaction of the Dutch press in the Indies to this book was quite negative, not least because it appeared to have been published in English in order to gain foreign sympathy for his case and against the Indies government.
197:, in April 1912. Despite the Chinese ownership of the paper, it was common practice at that time to have a European or Indo editor who would be treated less harshly by the colonial legal system. He was still not free from legal vulnerability; in 1913 he was sentenced to 2 weeks in prison under the strict press offense laws (
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It is unclear what J.R. did after his prison sentence. He was apparently released in 1929 and lived briefly in
Batavia before relocating to Cheribon once again. Decades later, in 1958, he remarried to a Chinese woman named Gwat Loen Nio Tan and travelled to the Netherlands. Their departure may have
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In 1921, Razoux Kühr was arrested for the murder of H. van der Hilst, a machinist in the colonial navy who lived in
Cheribon. The incident happened in the evening of 31 December 1920, when van der Hilst was shot in the abdomen by a Beaumont rifle, dying almost instantly. What came out in the trial
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Batavia while still on leave as a government employee. Other allegations surfaced that he had engaged in dubious currency exchanges while in office in Borneo; for that, he was called to court and eventually acquitted, but was discharged from public office. He later claimed
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Allegations circulated that, under his rule, the paper would sometimes accept payment from subjects of stories to travel and listen to their 'injustices'. He held the post until March 1916, when stepped down as editor, ostensibly for health reasons, suggesting publicly that he was planning to
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in the internal administration, notably in Borneo. In
February 1907, his first son Rudolf was born. His civil service career soon began to unravel. He was granted medical leave to return from Borneo to Batavia in the spring of 1907, but people complained that he was often seen conducting
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240:. It is unclear how long he lasted there (perhaps into late 1918 or early 1919), and he never again held a job in journalism. However, during his short time there he was sentenced to a 100 guilders fine or one month in prison under a press offense (
159:. Eventually he fell afoul of the law and was sentenced to several years in prison for his dubious business practices. It was in July 1910 that police were waiting for him as he sailed into Batavia, and he was arrested and imprisoned in
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Batavia dairy trading company called The Australian Dairy Ltd. He then got a job in a private "immigration office", recruiting
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Indonesia and the Netherlands, since Tan's name was on a published list of evacuees being repatriated as a result of Indonesian measures against Dutch interests in the country. However, Razoux Kühr died on 13 July 1958 in
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Dutch justice in Java. Are the Dutch worthy of this beautiful island with its 35,000,000 inhabitants? Startling revelations
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