Butler County’s most famous crime story is the topic of a presentation to be given tonight.
Local storyteller Bill May will present the tale of “The Biddle Boys- The Escape, Capture and Death of Butler County’s Most Notorious Outlaws” in the Alameda Park Carousel Shelter in Butler Township beginning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
This free, hour-long slide show and talk will focus on the escape, capture and death of Butler County’s most notorious outlaws.
The story of the 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 and were sentenced to hang in the Allegheny County Jail. Ed Biddle, the handsomest man most women had ever seen, seduced the wife of Warden Peter Soffel who supplied them with saws and chloroformed her husband. The trio headed north through the snow, stealing a sleigh, making their way through the streets of Butler ending in a terrifying shootout with police halfway between Mt. Chesnut and Prospect.
“I fill the hour with rare photos and amazing stories of these three desperate outlaws,” May said in a statement.
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