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Newspaper Articles about Edward and John Biddle

 

  • April 17, 1901 – Evidence to Indict Them of Two Murders Biddle quote
  • April 19, 1901 – First Ordeal for a Murderous Gang
  • June 9, 1901 – County’s Greatest Criminal Trials Begin Tomorrow Biddles and Mrs. Soffel
  • June 10, 1901 – Dorman Admits Complicity in Murder of Grocer Kahney 
  • June 13, 1901 – Who Shot Grocer Kahney?
  • June 16, 1901 – Who Killed Kahney
  • June 18, 1901 – Dorman Dons Black Mask and Tells of the Murder
  • June 23, 1901 – Is Dorman’s Brain Awry From Drugs?
  • July 18, 1901 – Biddle Attacks Dorman
  • September 26, 1901 – Dorman Testified in Insurance case
  • October 14, 1901 – Walter Dorman Seriously Ill
  • January 21, 1902 – (Spokane Daily Chronicle) Clue to the Murderers
  • January 30, 1902 – Condemned Murderers Free: Warden’s Wife Aided Them to Escape
  • February 1, 1902 – Mrs. Soffel Confessed Her Crimes
  • February 1, 1902 – Biddle Brothers are Captured
  •  February 2, 1902 – She Wrote to Ed. Biddle/Bodies to be Brought Here
  •  February 3, 1902 – Ed a Suicide, Jack was Not
  •  February 4, 1902 – Died of Their Wounds: Biddle Brothers Succumb to Injuries Received in Fight
  • April 10, 1902 – Startling Tales From Prison Board on Biddle Escape
  • April 12, 1902 – Anniversary of a Red Day in Police Annals
  •  May 10, 1902 – Prison for Mrs. Soffel, Dorman’s Sentence DEATH
  • May 11, 1902 – Were Sentenced For Crimes
  • May 17, 1902 – Two Years for Mrs. Soffel
  • June 19, 1902 – Walter Dorman’s Life Saved
  • July 15, 1902 – Monument to Biddle Brothers is no More
  • December 10, 1903 – Mrs. Soffel is Restored to Liberty
  • July 16, 1907 – Friends of Prisoner, Serving Life Sentence in Biddle Case Become Active
  • July 15, 1908 – Dispute of Biddle Nag
  • August 31, 1909 – Woman Who Helped Biddle Brothers to Escape a Victim of Typhoid
  • April 2, 1915 – Pardon For Biddle Boys’ Accomplice Strongly Opposed
  • February 21, 1916 – Biddle Brothers’ Escape Recalled by Recent Deaths
  • November 1, 1923 – Walter Dorman Freed From Pen After 22 Years
  • November 4, 1923 – Former Fellow Cellmate Tells Story of Dorman’s Alliance with Biddle Boys
  • August 6, 1930 – No. 9 – Love in the Death House
  • August 6, 1930 –  No. 9 – Love in the Death House, continued
  • May 1, 1949 – Murder Woos the Warden’s Wife
  • May 8, 1949 – Death Takes a Sleigh Ride: The Biddles Go Down to Stay
  • April 23, 1950 – Barn Raided by Biddle Boys to be Torn Down
  • Jan. 30, 1965 – Big Story: Biddle Boys & Mrs. Soffel
  • May 30, 1984 – Ed Biddle: a Prisoner and a Poet
  • June 7 1984 – (Times Daily) Inmates ‘Act’ like Prisoners
  • February 23, 1985 – True Story: Get the Goods on Mrs. Soffel
  • June 13, 2001 – Criminal Interest

 

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