Storyteller and historian Bill May will present “The Biddle Boys — The Escape, Capture and Death of Butler County’s Most Notorious Outlaws“ at 6:30 p.m. June 23 at Alameda Park's Carousel Shelter.

The free event is sponsored by the Butler County Parks and Recreation Department.

The slideshow and talk recounts the story of Ed and Jack Biddle whose escape from the Allegheny County Jail, with the warden’s wife, captured the attention of the entire nation in 1902 and became front-page news from New York to San Francisco.

The Biddle brothers and Mrs. Soffel headed north through the streets of Butler and ended up in a guns-blazing shootout with police halfway between Mt. Chestnut and Prospect.

The hour is filled with rare photos and never before heard stories of the Biddle Boys.