The Escapes Of The Plymouth County Desperadoes
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Episode 376 is an action-packed thriller with a jailbreak, a prison break, a couple of car chases, a bank robbery, and then some. At the center of it all is the law-enforcing family of Sheriff Hugh Maxwell of Plymouth County, Iowa, who make the ultimate sacrifice in their pursuit of justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.8 | Sue City, Iowa, June 24th, 1919. |
| 0:15.9 | Miss Fern Maxwell, 18, pretty daughter of Sheriff Hugh Maxwell of Lamar's, Plymouth County, Iowa. |
| 0:23.6 | Last Saturday assisted her father in a gun battle with three booze runners who opened fire when Mr. |
| 0:30.6 | Maxwell tried to stop them. One bullet ripped open the sheriff's shirt near the neck. |
| 0:36.6 | Mr. Maxwell received word from a relative |
| 0:39.6 | that a car laden with liquor was coming toward Lamar's on the Neptune Road. Not having time to |
| 0:46.6 | obtain aid, he assented to his daughter driving the car. Miss Maxwell, armed with a 38 caliber revolver, went with her father to a crossroad to head off |
| 0:58.3 | the blockade runners. They waited only a few minutes when a heavy car was seen coming toward them. |
| 1:05.4 | Mr. Maxwell stepped into the road and held his hand up for the driver to stop. The car slowed and went a few feet from |
| 1:13.0 | the sheriff the occupant suddenly opened fire, the driver at the same time stepping on the |
| 1:18.5 | accelerator. Bullets threw thick and fast Sheriff Maxwell returning the fire as he stepped to one side. |
| 1:26.8 | Miss Maxwell came to the aid of her father |
| 1:29.3 | by firing at the booze runners who fired at her after passing the sheriff. |
| 1:34.3 | Bullets smashed the windshield of her car |
| 1:37.3 | and plowed furrows in the seat beside her, but luckily none took effect. |
| 1:42.3 | Her revolver empty, Miss Maxwell's first impulse was to start in pursuit. |
| 1:48.5 | Her father jumped in beside her, but their car was slower than the one used by the booze runners, |
| 1:54.4 | who soon disappeared. Miss Maxwell, who is a student in Morningside College summer school, said, quote, |
| 2:01.8 | I enjoyed the experience and I wish we could have captured the men. |
| 2:05.8 | I often go with Father on trips of a similar nature. |
| 2:09.4 | It was great fun. |
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