The 150th anniversary of Black Maria was celebrated recently by a party given at Bow Street police station. In 1790 an old woman named Maria Dobson, who was something of a character in the neighbourhood of Drury Lane, often assisted the Bow Street runners by lending them her black dog cart for the conveyance of prisoners to the court. The vehicle was so often in request that official authority was given for the purchase of three more to be used exclusively for the transport of prisoners, and they were always known as Black Marias. In Paris, prison vans are known as “Salad Bowls”; in Berlin as “Judas Wagons,” and in Vienna as “Green Henrys.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4403, 17 March 1941, Page 8
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