Norton responded with ‘‘You skunk!’’ and ‘‘You’re a beautiful bludger from a brothel. Meagher reportedly accused Norton of being a ‘‘scaly scurvy contemptible viper’’. Meagher was later fined five pounds and Norton was acquitted, though both had a fine time insulting each other in court. Norton drew his revolver, ran after Meagher and let fly, missing his target. Meagher armed himself with a greenhide bullwhip and ambushed Norton as he emerged from Her Majesty’s Theatre in Pitt Street. Some years later, he accused the Member for Tweed, Richard Meagher, as a premier perjurer and ‘‘the champion criminal of the continent’’. I neither bit nor attempted to bite Willis or either of my two other assailants,’’ he wrote.īut Norton wasn’t finished with politicians. ![]() ‘‘I am depicted as diligently endeavouring to masticate one of Mr Willis’ ears. Norton set upon Willis and allegedly bit into his ear, though Norton - in a letter to the Evening News - denied it. Melville, former secretary to the NSW Premier.Īs matters escalated, Willis reportedly tried to whip Norton with his cane, but hit a bystander instead. Norton, in the 1890s, got himself into a ‘‘cheap display of fisticuffs’’ in King Street, Sydney, one evening with William Willis, the Member for Bourke and a co-founder with Norton of Truth, and a Mr W.B. His story, in fact, is among the more rollicking within the chronicles of a book named The Wild Men of Sydney written in 1958 by Cyril Pearl. He retaliated by publishing in the Truth photographs of Packer at the races in his uniform as a captain in the AIF, with the sneering caption ‘‘Captain Packer will be leaving for the front soon’’.Įzra Norton’s father, also a newspaper owner with an anger management problem, was considered the original wild man of the Sydney media. Norton was forced to apologise to the Australian Jockey Club committee because he had thrown the first punch. He hauled off and thumped Packer when they came across each other in the racecourse bar, and a ding-dong ensued. Norton was infuriated that the Daily Telegraph had been publishing unflattering photographs of him. Packer, owner of the Daily Telegraph, and Norton, who ran Truth, had been trading verbal and newspaper-article blows before meeting at Randwick Racecourse on Derby Day in 1939. Kerry and Clyde’s father, Sir Frank Packer, had previously found himself in a celebrated dispute involving fisticuffs with the colourful media tycoon Ezra Norton. Murdoch is supposed to have orchestrated events via two-way radio from the safety of a nearby park. ![]() Kerry, a former schoolboy heavyweight boxing champion, was clouted with a six-by-four timber post and Clyde reportedly suffered a wound from a dart to the buttocks. Photographs of the pair brawling outside Mr Packer's. The Daily Mirror subsequently published, beneath the screaming headline ‘‘Knight’s Son in City Brawl’’, a picture of Clyde Packer tossing a one-legged clergyman into the street. Billionaire gambling boss James Packer and Channel Nine boss David Gyngell have issued a statement after they got into a punch-up on Sunday.
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