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The Black Maria

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
September
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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In Boston 'a early days a negress named Maria Lee kept a sailors' boarding bouse near the water front. She was a womau of gigantic size and prodigious strengtb and was of great assistance to the authorities in keeping the peace. When an u,nusually tronblesome fellow was on the way to the lockup, Black Maria, as Maria Lee was called, would come to the assistance of the policeruan, and her services were in fiuch requisition for this purpose tbat her name was associated with almost every arrest made. Black Maria often carried a prisoner to the lockup on her shoulder, and when the prison van was iustituted for the purpose of carrying prisoners it natnrally enough was styled the Black Maria.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News