@book{86,
  keywords = {Roman Catholics, Pittsburgh Police, legal profession, jailbreaks, Jack Biddle (1872-1902), Ed Biddle (1876-1902), Kate Soffel (1867-1909), jail wardens, Protestants},
  author = {Theodore Kremer},
  title = {A Desperate Chance},
  abstract = {A four-act, Broadway stage play portraying 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 = {1902},
  note = {Opened at the Grand Opera House in New York, New York on December 22, 1902.},
  language = {English},
}