The old story about the boy crying “Wolf!” still applies.
I misunderstood a story encountered long ago; I checked it out myself, and I posted that I found my understanding to be wrong. I’m told by the friend I learned about the convent with that what we had read about said that the “convent was burned to the ground with the sisters inside it.” Apparently, although the nuns were within the convent, they were not in the buildings as they burnt, but had found an escape into a garden.
I don’t know what your beef is. It’s not like the boy went out and said, “whoops, it’s not actually a wolf.”
You might check out this document, though:
An account of the conflagration of the Ursuline Convent by a friend of religious toleration (1834).
The events are quite outrageous. A crowd of 4,000 (elsewhere estimated to be 2,000) gathered to watch as a mob encircled the convent with barrels of pitch and burnt it to the ground. Fire departments from all over the area were summoned, but they just watched. None were charged for abdicating their duties. No witnesses would name any of the many perpetrators, even though no-one bothered to conceal their identity. No charges were brought. A legislative subcommittee found that the state had failed its duty to protect private property, but an overwhelming majority of the legislature voted down recompense.
There had been 56 students, all girls, most Protestant, in the convent as it burned. Due to the heroism of the nuns, they did not perish, but the bystanders were plainly unaware that they had escaped, for they were hidden in the garden while the mob searched furiously for escapees, so clearly the intent of the mob was murder. The nuns and students did lose everything they owned; everything had been stolen from the convent as it burned, even pianos. Insurance covered no losses.