Biography
Walter Bishop, also recorded as Wesley Bishop, was a Black defendant jailed during Boston’s 1854 prosecution of people accused of participating in the attempted rescue of Anthony Burns. He was arrested on May 26 and committed to jail with the other defendants after the next day’s hearing on a collective murder complaint. The June 7 report listed Bishop among those held without bail. He was named among the defendants represented in the later federal proceedings. His exact release date, total time confined and later life remain unverified; the allegations are not recorded as a conviction.
