Biography
Henry Howe was jailed in Boston after the May 1854 attempt to rescue Anthony Burns from rendition to slavery. The contemporary report lists him among those arrested on Friday evening, May 26, and committed to jail following the May 27 Police Court hearing on a collective murder complaint. The New York Herald report published June 7 lists Howe as discharged from the initial proceedings. The allegation is not a finding of guilt. His exact physical-release date and complete time confined remain unknown.
Boston custody after the Anthony Burns rescue attempt
Henry Howe was jailed in Boston after the May 1854 attempt to rescue Anthony Burns from rendition to slavery. The contemporary report lists him among those arrested on Friday evening, May 26, and committed to jail following the May 27 Police Court hearing on a collective murder complaint. The New York Herald report published June 7 lists Howe as discharged from the initial proceedings. The allegation is not a finding of guilt. His exact physical-release date and complete time confined remain unknown.
The named original roster and the subsequent individual proceedings report document actual multi-day detention in the same Boston case. The May 27 commitment is a known custody point, not an inferred first jail-admission date. No exact release day, complete total, conviction or sentence is inferred.
Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns (1854), printed pages 10 and 16; New York Herald, June 7, 1854, page 1, The Boston Fugitive Slave Rioters.
