The Heinz History Center has unlocked its vault to reveal several rarely and never-before-seen objects. The new exhibit, ...

PITTSBURG, Penn., Aug. 30. -- Mrs. Kate Soffel, the liberator of the Biddle brothers from the Allegheny County Jail on Jan. 30, 1902, died at the West Pennsylvania Hospital to-day of typhoid fever.

Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and children ...