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 - Theodore Kremer
AB - 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.
C1 - <p>1901-2</p>
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Allegheny County Jail (1886); Allegheny County Courthouse; Mt. Washington; Greenfield; Calvary Catholic Cemetery; 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; Detective; Thriller; Romance
LA - English
M3 - Playscript
N1 - Opened at the Grand Opera House in New York, New York on December 22, 1902.
N2 - 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.
PY - 1902
RN - Theodore Kremer (1873-1923) was a German-born playwright of the Broadway stage.
TI - A Desperate Chance
ER -