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...Milwaukee, out of a star-chamber divorce hearing walked a Mrs. Annette Seyfert and her lawyer, into camera-range of Photographer Leland M. Benfer of the Wisconsin News and Sentinel. Mrs. Seyfert had hysterics. The lawyer "assaulted and battered" Photographer Benfer. Mrs. Seyfert went to court and secured an injunction restraining the News and Sentinel from taking or publishing her picture. The News and Sentinel girded their loins for a great "freedom of the press" battle. To the newspapers' disappointment, the court granted a motion of Mrs. Seyfert's lawyer to drop the case...