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Alaska Deputy Taken for Ride In ‘Black Maria’Former Cordovan Paul 0. Herring Vr'ho is now deputy U\ S. Marshal at Kodiak, got a dose of his own medi-! cine while in Seattle recently deliv- : ering prisoners, reports the Cordova ] Times,Two policemen in charge of the • Seattle, department’s famous ‘'Black i Maria’* offered to take Paul to his;hotel after delivering the last pris- j oner to the Juvenile Detention j home. As they neared the business] district, the drivers got a funny idea j and sent Black Maria,r-screeching j through busy streets with siren wide j open, iA crowd Quickly assembled , at the : entrance' of the Gowman 'hotel as j. • - 4the wagon drew up, thinking per- j haps to witness a‘bit of excitement; or get in on the ground floor of any! choice gossip—which happens, even j to Seattle. Harry Gowman ran con- j cernedly from the front door as the!. officers cautiously unpadJocked the! steel doors of the wagon—and out \ stepped Marshal Herring and hit; assistant fGeorgc Seott who -had, been one .of -the guards on .the Se- j attle trip. j''We've had ’em come to this hotel iito all sorts of maimers and - condl- i tions,” said Harry, “but this-is the; first time -we've had the pleasure of • ■welcoming a guest from the ‘Black j Maria,’ by heck.” • I
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Fairbanks Alaska Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Tue, Jun 18, 1940
Page 12
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