Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-07
roc MUCH CURIOSITY.
A Paul Pry" among the Rail-
way Postal Clerks.
He Finds Himself in an Uncom-
Portable Situation, and
Skips Ont.

Too much curiosity often gets a
person into difficulty. Mother Ewes
superabundance of curiosity to see
what that apple tasted like, not only
got herself into trouble, but also her
sons and daughters and their de-
scendants even unto this day.
Charles III. Torrey, n OF Ewes
descendants, recently entangied
HIMSELF in a troublesome net, by too
freely gratifying his curiosity, a
fault which he undoubtedly inheri-
ted from his distant maternal rela-
lives. who was kicked out OF the
Garden of Eden. Torrey was a
mail agent ON the Union Pacific,
having come here about seven
months ago from Massachusetts,.
Soon after arriving here, and TAX
ing his position, he exhibited a fac
ulty of making every body's bus
mess his own, and for that reason
it was thought he had once been an
impudent newspaper reporter. He
became ~disagreeably conspicuous,
and made enemies instead %Offriends.
As an example of his cheeky
HPaul Pryism" the following Incl
dent, as related to us, will be a good
illustration: He found out in some
way that a certain gentleman was
corresponding with a lady at Hill
lard, 900 miles west on the Union
Pacific. When he arrived at Hill
lard on one of his "runs," he in
quired of the Station Agent if he
knew this lady. The agent said
she had gone to Rock Springs.
Torrey telegraphs to her, telling her
to meet him at the dept. Upon the
train arriving there, the lady, ac-
companied by a gentleman, CAME
to the depot, when he asked her if
she was corresponding with a GER
tain person. The lady said she had
been, but was not now. Torrey gave
no explanation of his impudence,
but entered his car, and as the train
moved off, left the lady to wonder
at his conduct, he being almost a
total stranger to her.
Several charges were recently
made against him, and sent forward
to the superintendent of the railway
mail service. Torrey denied them,
and there was no attempt made to
prove them. He was charged with
taking improper liberties with a
young girl in his room; also of get
ting possession of a letter addressed
to a young lady of climbing up a
ladder into a young lady's room,
through a window, and Of going
through her papers in her absence ;
and of leaving a note telling her to
beware of his roommate; also, OF
attempting to enter the room OF
another young lady.
These charges were made against
him at Washington. He left for
Massachusetts about two months
ago, to visit, as he said, his sick
wife; but the next that was heard
of him he was in Washington, from
which city he wrote to certain Oma-
ha gentlemen, denying the truth of
the charges. They answered him
by saying that as far as they knew,
he had not been guilty of any such
conduct as alleged.
He was ordered back to Omaha
for examination on his postal du-
ties. Meanwhile he wrote to the
gentleman who obtained his APP
pointment, asking that the eXamin-
alton i'm his case be dispensed with.
This letter was forwarded to the
Postmaster General, who ordered
the examination to proceed at once.
Torrey then produced a letter, which
was afterwards found to be a hoax,
about his wife being sick. The ex-
animation was nevertheless re-
sumed two weeks ago; but ON Thurs
day last Mr.. Torrey skipped out,
thinking that the campaign, in
more ways than one, would very
likely prove too hot for him. the
day he went away, an order had
been issued for him to appear
again, and this probably FASTENED
his departure. He wrote an insult
ing letter to Mr.. Vandevert, head
railway postal clerk, and had evil
IDENTIFY put it into a pouch on the
railway postal car, as he was going
East. He took with him his mail
keys, but they we're taken from
him upon his arrival in Chicago ac-
cording to the Geographic directions
of Mr.. Vandevert.
Itis hoped that Torrey's curiosity
in regard to private affairs in this
section Of the country, has been
fully satisfied:
Escape Of q Prisoner.
4 man named AIeck Harris. ar.