The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-04-14
A NEWSPAPER aEGcHER.
William y. Byers, Proprietor Of The Rock,
Mountain News. Appears in the
Role Of q Lstharie.
Downfall of Colorado's thief Jour
nalis;-His Lisison win q
Pretty Milliner.

tain News, published at Denver, Colo
rade, had been made u target for pistol
practice on the streets of Denver by q
woman-Mrs. H. L. saneomb-whu
is engaged in the millinery business al
Golden, Colorado. The item proved
to be untrue. as subsequent develop
ments have shown. Mrs. Byers, II
seems, did the shooting. aud Mrs. San
comb WAS the target. The Golden
Transcript Of Wednesday last contains
the statement of Mrs. Saucomb's at
torney, and from 1t WI gather the fol-
lowing points concerning this disgust
ing affair. The article in the Trans
cript has the s~ubjoined heading:
Hell Hath no Fury Like u Woman
Scorned Out-Beechered aud
in the Shade!"
About the year 1871 William N.
Byers, by the wiles lie knows so art
fully how TO WELD. obtained the conf
dence and affection of Mrs III. L. San
comb, Of Golden, which II would seem
he had retained until the first of the
present year, when u lovers quarrel
and an exposure u his family parted
them. and III the bitterness of his feel
ings he wrote ard sent her an accusing
letter charging her with blackmaii
and the dishonor of his own seduc-
tion, whom but II day before he idol
lied as superior, better and more
adorable than his own wife. Stung
aud wounded by the baseness of his
assertions, Mrs. Sancomb, In a fit OF
frenzy. sought counsel of u respectable
lawyer how she might redress the
grievance, and the knowledge of her
Intentions Coming to William N.
Byers, he ut once thought of his vol
luminous love correspondence, which
would rise up tn condemn him, and
how he should obtain IL from Mrs.
Sancomb's possession.
Offers of large sums of money for
tie correspondence were refused, and
other means were resurted to To obtain
the letters. Mrs. Sancomb became
alarmed for the safety of his letters.
and therefore made full copies of all OF
them. She endeavored To obtain an
and effect II reconciliation
with Byers, and failing, she went to
Denver on the 9th inst. to procure his
indictment for libel before the grand
jury Of Arapahoe county. While there
She stepped into n street car, when she
met 3yers. They talked together
amicably, and finally got out of the
car and walked some distance together
In confidential nversation, he plac-
ing his hand in her ARM: Nearing
house they stopped in the
still continuing their %conversa-
ton. when Mrs. Byers came upon them
In a carriage. She ordered Byers to
get into the carriage. He hesitated, but
his books-of which he had
an urmfull-into the carriage, he seized
Mrs. Sancomb's hand, casting an i'm
ploring look towards Mrs. Byers. She
repeated her command, and proposed
10 shoot him with II revolver which
she had In hand IL he did not obey.
NJ rs. Sancomb advised him to get in,
md he asked her To go to his house,
she declined 10 do. AS lac got
IntO the carriage and tumbled down
mo the bottom, Mrs. Byers fired her
at Mrs. Sancomb, who stood
,nly n few feet of, saying to her hus-
Iand that Mrs. Sancomb was about to
lire In return. The brave man slid
lown behind her with such force as to
his feet. over the dash board.
The horse started mt the firing, and,
unmanageable, threatened
'or a time TO dash all 4 the ground.
Mrs. Sancomb walked up the hill
Byers' house. Meantime Mrs.
had reached there, and was out
Oh the porch to receive her warmly.
In hand all the time. Byers'
son appeared on the scene of action.
. r.. Byers called upon him to shoot
her Mrs. Sancomb) down. Mean
time Byers had taken refuge in the
house, now and then peeping out
a half-opened lattice of u
window.
Mrs. Sancomb went away. hut was
soon arrested. lodged in Jail, and kept
here until she promised Ia give up
letters. An officer accompanied
to Golden and secured the letters.
and she was again imprisoned in Dem
yer until h consented to have the
given to Byers, when she was
released, an officer remaining with
her, however, until her attorney ar
and ordered him away.
:" 1t was as above described that
VIM. N. Byers has succeeded in pro-
his guilty letters-by an nut
Oh private rights unprecedented
in the history OF our landry procur-
ing II deputy of the Sheriff t. do the
lirty and Illegal work of frightening IL
Wouiui iIlto giving up ier private
lcttcrs-hy %Outraging the constitution
and the laws and causing search to be
made without The least semblance of
All this was done relying on
The weakness of Mrs. s., who was I'M
protected by husband, brother or
The transcripts account concludes
the statement that the relations
between Byers and Mrs. 5. have been
entirely n love affair, and that in a
recent letter from Byers TO his milliner
he states that she has always been true
10 him, and has never taken money
him.
These developments will probably
cause Bycrs' chances for the governor
ship of the State of Colorado, and a
seat In the U. S. Senate. to both Of
positions he has long aspired,
to diminish greatly.