This runaway slave advertisement, offering a $100.00 reward for the "recovery" of "Harriett aged about 19 years," appeared on 10 January, 1854, in the pages of the Daily Evening Tribune of Portsmouth, Ohio. After failing to return from a holiday visit to Portsmouth, Harriet's enslaver (Hannah Warner of Greenup County, Kentucky) contacted Albert McFarland, the owner and editor of the Tribune about placing an advertisement. Rather than leading to her recapture and return, as planned, the advertisement created an unexpected controversy when a Columbus newspaper editor called out McFarland for assisting slaveowners and personally profiting from that assistance.