Multnomah County OR Archives News.....Murderer  Is Identified August 6, 1904
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Morning Oregonian August 6, 1904
Illinois Criminal Gave Detectives A Long Chase On The Coast

Seattle,Aug.5- Ray Brom, accused of murdering Richard Roberts in Decatur,Ill., 
last April, and who was arrested by Detective Bancroft, of this city, last 
Saturday night, was identified by Sheriff C.A. Shrift, of Macon 
County,Illinois, who arrived here today after the wanted man.
The accused man escaped the night of crime and was later captured in 
St.Joseph,Mo., where, after a confinement of one night, he broke jail. He 
reached California before any trace of him  was found. From San Fransisco he 
came to Puget Sound, and during the three months that detectives have been on 
his trail in this section has visited nearly all the towns on the Sound.
He will be taken back to Illinois tomorrow to answer a charge of murder. He 
denies everything and says his name is "Joe Leeper" and his home El Paso, 
Texas.

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