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Joshua Norton, Street Fighter?

In early 1850, Joshua Norton was brought before San Francisco Alcalde John W. Geary on charge of assault — and was found guilty and fined.

That’s how a “Pioneer” eyewitness remembered it in 1887, in the pages of The Overland Monthly.

Is this true? And, if so, what does it mean?

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