@book{96, keywords = {Roman Catholics, Pittsburgh Police, legal profession, jailbreaks, Jack Biddle (1872-1902), Ed Biddle (1876-1902), Kate Soffel (1867-1909), jail wardens, Protestants}, author = {Howard P. Taylor}, title = {A Break for Liberty: An Original Melodrama in Five Acts Founded in Incidents in the Career of the Biddle Brothers}, abstract = {Follows 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 = {1903}, pages = {130 p.}, note = {The play ran for years throughout the United States.}, language = {English}, }