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  • curprev 17:4217:42, 1 September 2022‎ Randylyon talk contribs‎ 858 bytes +858‎ Created page with ""BLACK MARIA." left|thumb|250px|BLACK MARIA. The "Black Maria" was the term given to a horse-drawn wagon used to transport prisoners. The origin of the term has long been in question. As the result of research by George Thompson, however, it appears the term was in use in New York in at least two newspaper reports, one of 1835 and the other of 1836. The former was in the ''New York Transcript'' of December 24, 1835 and said, “A man named Henry St..."
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