TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Pittsburgh Police
KW - legal profession
KW - jailbreaks
KW - Jack Biddle (1872-1902)
KW - Ed Biddle (1876-1902)
KW - Kate Soffel (1867-1909)
KW - jail wardens
KW - Protestants
AU - Arthur Forrest
AB - The novelized 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.
C1 - <p>1901-2</p>
C3 - Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Allegheny County Jail (1886); Allegheny County Courthouse; Mt. Washington; Greenfield; Calvary Catholic Cemetery; North Side; Marshall-Shadeland; Western Penitentiary (1882); McKeesport; Ross Twp.; Perrysville; Butler County; Butler; Butler County Jail; Butler County Hospital; Erie County; Erie; Venango County; Cooperstown
C4 - Biographical; Thriller; Romance
CY - Baltimore
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - The novelized 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.
PB - I. & M. Ottenheimer
PP - Baltimore
PY - 1902
RN - Arthur Forrest was a Pittsburgh journalist.
EP - 128 p.
TI - The Biddle Boys and Mrs. Soffel: The Great Pittsburg Tragedy and Romance. With Full Description of their Lives and Crimes
ER -