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 - Howard P. Taylor
AB - 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.
C1 - 1901-2
C2 - unpublished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 - The play ran for years throughout the United States.
N2 - 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.
PY - 1903
RN - Howard Taylor (1838-1916), born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in California, was a popular playwright, a friend of Mark Twain, and Vice President of the American Dramatists and Composers' Society. He died in New York.
EP - 130 p.
TI - A Break for Liberty: An Original Melodrama in Five Acts Founded in Incidents in the Career of the Biddle Brothers
ER -