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 | | John Norton, despite his staunch republicanism, his appalling behaviour, and having been acquitted of indecently assaulting Mrs Leith, the wife of the publican of the Palace Hotel at Watson's Bay, was also for 11 years and 8 months a Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly. |
 | | On at least one occasion in the Chamber he repeated his party trick of drunkenly mistaking a corner of a room for a toilet, and there was at least one time he was dragged, inebriated, from the Chamber by constables. |
 | | John Norton, who in the 1890s had so little money he cadged drinks off his friends, died in 1916 leaving an estate valued at 100,000 pounds. |
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