Daily Republican News, Hamilton, Ohio 
Saturday  January 4, 1908  Page 7

TROUBLE IN LEBANON
Prominent Society Woman Purses Negro Accuser

      LEBANON, Ohio, Jan. 4 - Claiming that Bert Robinson, a negro, had started 
rumors concerning relation between them, Miss Laura O'Neall, a prominent white 
society woman, and Webster Smith, her colored servant, armed themselves with 
revolvers and visited the home of Robinson last night, intent upon "a retraction or 
his life's blood."
      Robinson fled to the Court Magistrate Jameson, where he swore out a warrent 
for the arrest of the two on the charge of assault with intent to kill. They gave bond 
and will appear Saturday for trial. Smith has been the woman's servant for years