The expression “ Black Maria ” with application to a prison van originated in America over sixty years ago. A big negro woman called Maria Lee kept a seamen’s lodging-house in Boston. The men were usually unruly, and Maria was often called upon to help get them under lock and key.
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Evening Star, Issue 20823, 19 June 1931, Page 11
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