Have you ever seen a crazy story like this?

You have people that disagree on how to manage an economy, one of the people (JS) believed the others were plotting against him. Then the others "procured indictments" against one of them (JS).

Then the newspaper is accused of being "fake news", and used to attack the one person (JS), and the city council ordered the "fake news" to be destroyed.

Then the one person (JS) and his brother stand trial for inciting a riot, and then charged with treason. A mob then attacks the two and kills them. The five men tried for murder were all acquitted.

Then the newspapers were almost unanimous in portraying the one (JS) as a fanatic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith