@book{101,
  keywords = {jailbreaks, Jack Biddle (1872-1902), Ed Biddle (1876-1902), Kate Soffel (1867-1909), jail wardens, Peter Soffel (1864-1936)},
  author = {Louis Lesser and George S. Challis},
  title = {A Daring Woman: A Melodrama in Three Acts},
  abstract = {A failed Biddle boys stage play based on Kate Soffel, the jail warden’s wife who aided the Biddles’ escape. The play was intended to exploit Soffel’s notoriety after her release from prison, with original props such as the sleigh the Biddles used during their infamous 1902 jailbreak.},
  year = {1904},
  note = {Newspaper accounts suggest that, for legal reasons, the play’s final draft did not directly reference the Biddles and switched the setting to the American West. Although set to open in Connellsville, Fayette County on January 23, 1904, the play was blocked by local authorities. Kate Soffel's manager, Louis Lesser, was fined $200 “contempt of the moral and decent sentiment of the community.”},
  language = {English},
}