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Show The Denver Trunscrijif recently published a sensational story in re fere nee to Mr. Byers, the proprietor ot tlie Denver AVic.f mid a woman named Saiicomb, with whom livers admits to havn been in intimate relations. Mr. B. in the AVic give? his version of the story as follows: iMra. Sancontb has for nearly a year piiht kept up a seines of r.ttaidis and a found ol persecution upon Mr. Byeis. The caul's were of her own Reeking, and the various alleged provocations entirely pryter.dcd. Sin; 1ms thn at ened him in every possible way, with social, polilienl nnd pecuniary ruin, 'he burning of his houc and ollice, and the killing of huusdf, his wife ,in.l nl.H.Unn (tf II, . . I'. repeated, there is al undant evidi nee. On Wednesday, Iho fiflii in.staut, she attempted, surreptitiously, to gain entrance to his ollice, hut failed. Later she surprised him in a ulreet cur, and after leaving it. near his house, together, threatened his lite and attempted to put her threat into execution. This he, for the lime, prevented, and whilst holding her liandi to keep her from drawing a pistol , bin wife drovo in a hi i guy to tho spot. Ah he sprung into tlie buggy and tho horse leapul forward, Mrs. S. lireel ft shot which nm-ed the mark, but camo ne ir killing a child on tho porch of a neighboring house As the buggy came round !e p ks her, sho aimed, and trird to tire a second shot, which would iluuht'ess have taken eU'eel, hut, for some roifmi, hor pistol, was not diachared, Sub sequently she said that Mr. B. would have been ft dead man h it for the reason that sho hud not strength enouth to pull the trigger of her ni.sl.jl a second time; that she was yet deter-mined deter-mined to "kill him il it Uke ten years lo accomplish it." Tim la'.n ment published in the Intn-u; irt that MrH. Byerrf lired two shnls at Mrs, S. is absolutely false. Mrs B. fired no shot, intentionally, hut uller she reached home a shot was ditt barged accidentatly from a pistol that she had in her band. It was not aimed at all, nor was the flint sent even in tlm direction of Mrs. S., who was at the time beyond pi.-dol runge. As to tho Hlandcrs respecting Mm. liyois, or tiio assertion that her husband diitni'tn her in tlm l nt.1, Urn ''run-tn-ijit will hardly find any believerH. oho has lived loo long in Colorado In bo in tho leat atlecteil by puch cbiirpeu. |