The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia. [What happens when a historian tries to edit Wikipedia]

[Bill USA]

3. Here's a reporters 'take' on Messer-Kruse's judgement that the individuals were fairly convicted ...

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-14/entertainment/ct-ent-0915-museum-general-haymarket-20110915_1_separate-trials-haymarket-square-haymarket-incident

Messer-Kruse's greatest discovery: "Textbooks ignore the transcript and say the trial was unfair. But if you judge it by the standards of its day, it was (fair). In those days, you were convicted by testimony, not fingerprints and DNA. They had 162 witnesses and a lot of he said/she said. But then, that's what a trial was."

(That view is bound to stir up controversy among historians and legal scholars who [font size="3"]more generally consider the trial a travesty[/font].)