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The hobo who was murdered on the Pennsylvania train about three weeks ago, and for whose murder John J. Bertram now languishes in the county jail, was identified at a late hour this afternoon.

His father-in-law, Thomas Rafferty, came to this city and had the body exhumed.  He recognized it by the initials on the arm, the tattoo marks and the missing tooth.  He says the deceased had been a seaman on board the ship-of-war Minneapolis, and had deserted.

He left a wife and a boy, who reside at Allegheny.  Mr. Rafferty leaves tonight for his home in East Palestine.  In a conversation with a SHIELD reporter he said the hobo's name was Edward McCall, which story the initials E. McC bear out.

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