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"The name "Black Maria" as applied to the closed police vans with separate locked cubicles used to convey prisoners to jail is a term of New England origin; the story connected with it being that back in the mid-1800s in Boston, Massachusetts, there lived a black woman named Maria Lee, who kept a lodging house for sailors. It was a waterfront place in the North End, where brawls were frequent. Maria, who was a large and powerful person, won a reputation for her ability to quell fights and bring offenders to jail. So successful was she in handling tough characters that the constables frequently enlisted her aid in bringing malefactors to book, and the story goes that when police wagons came into use in the 1830s, the Boston constables, remembering the great help the black woman had given them, immortalized her name in the term "Black Maria"." -- https://www.spphs.com/history/black_maria.php
Ha! Yeah, the wikipedia article has a different origin in that she was a large London woman who was often picked up by the police for drunk and disorderly conduct. Whenever the police picked her up, onlookers would say "There goes Black Maria again."
I like your version better.
I had Sil call it a Black Mariah because I didn't want to use "Paddy Wagon".
I like your version better.
I had Sil call it a Black Mariah because I didn't want to use "Paddy Wagon".
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