@book{792,
  keywords = {Roman Catholics, Pittsburgh Police, legal profession, jailbreaks, Jack Biddle (1872-1902), Ed Biddle (1876-1902), Kate Soffel (1867-1909), jail wardens, Protestants},
  author = {Jeremy Beck},
  title = {The Biddle Boys and Mrs. Soffel},
  abstract = {An operatic incardination of the saga of Ed and Jack Biddle, who overpowered victims with chloroform before robbing them. The Biddles were convicted and sentenced to hang before the warden’s wife, Kate Soffel, helped them escape from the Allegheny County Jail. },
  year = {2001},
  note = {The author identified this publication as a lyric opera.

<em>The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</em> named the opera a Pittsburgh Top Ten Cultural Event in 2001.},
  language = {English},
}