Discovery series presents Biddles' tale
BUTLER TWP — “The Biddle Boys — The Escape, Capture and Death of Butler County's Most Notorious Outlaws” will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Thursday as part of the free Outdoor Discovery series at Alameda Park, hosted by the Butler County Parks and Recreation Department.
Bill May will give the free 60-minute slide show and talk in the Carousel Shelter.
The story of Ed and Jack Biddle captured the attention of the entire nation in 1902 and garnered front-page news from New York to San Francisco.
The Biddles had killed a grocer and a police detective in Pittsburgh in 1901 and were sentenced to hang in the Allegheny County Jail.
Ed Biddle, considered handsome, seduced the wife of Warden Peter Soffel, who supplied the brothers with saws and guns and chloroformed her husband.
Stealing a sleigh, the Biddle brothers and Mrs. Soffel headed north through the streets of Butler. They're escape ended in a gun-blazing shootout with police halfway between Mount Chestnut and Prospect.
For more information, call 724-284-5383.
