A Break for Liberty: An Original Melodrama in Five Acts Founded in Incidents in the Career of the Biddle Brothers
| Title | A Break for Liberty: An Original Melodrama in Five Acts Founded in Incidents in the Career of the Biddle Brothers |
| Year of Publication | 1903 |
| Publication Type | Playscript |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 130 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Taylor, Howard P. |
| Keywords | Ed Biddle (1876-1902); Jack Biddle (1872-1902); jail wardens; jailbreaks; Kate Soffel (1867-1909); legal profession; Pittsburgh Police; Protestants; Roman Catholics |
| 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. |
| Notes | The play ran for years throughout the United States. |
| Author Biography | 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. |
| Time | 1901-2 |
| Published | unpublished |
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