The city of Boston, in the persons of Mayor Michelle Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox, planned to issue an apology on Wednesday to two men and to the residents of the Mission Hill neighborhood for how they were treated by the city and its police department 34 years ago after a deceitful criminal set up the murder of his pregnant wife and an injury to himself and blamed it on a Black man.

On Tuesday, the Mayor’s Office posted an advisory about her intentions: “Tomorrow, Mayor Wu will publicly acknowledge the harms caused by the city of Boston to the black community and formally issue an apology to Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett for their wrongful arrests following the death of Carol Stuart.

“Months after her death in 1989, it was revealed that her husband, Charles Stuart, had orchestrated her murder and wrongfully accused a Black man of the crime. His accusation resulted in the racial harassment of Black men, in particular those living in the Mission Hill neighborhood, by city officials and the Boston Police Department.

“This dark time in the City’s history exacerbated distrust between Boston’s Black community and the Boston Police Department. Acknowledging this painful moment and apologizing for the city’s wrongdoing is an effort to aid in the healing of those still living with this trauma and our city as a whole.”

The notorious Stuart case was revived this month when the Globe produced a nine-part series (and HBO weighed in with a contemporaneous documentary) that revisited the situation in the city in 1989 as the Stuart probe continued for some two months until it unraveled in January 1990 when Charles Stuart’s role in the crime unraveled in public after he jumped to his death off the Tobin Bridge.

One reason for the renewed attention to the long-ago crime, one of the authors of the series said, was to pay attention to the effect of the aggressive tactics used on Mission Hill by police in pursuit of a Black man from a description given by Stuart as he sat bleeding in his car.

A key aspect of the case that the Globe amplified was its revelation that more than 30 people with connections to the Stuart family or his community of associates early on had some knowledge of Charles’s role in orchestrating the murder but stayed silent while first Swanson, a homeless man from Mission Hill, then Bennett, considered a small-time criminal, stayed in jail on other charges while being labeled in the media as somehow involved in the killing of Carol DeMaiti Stuart.

As to apologies, in January 1990, then-Mayor Ray Flynn visited the Bennett family home to apologize — but, family members told the Globe, he never sat down in doing so. The city has never accepted blame for any abuses but it did reach a $12,500 settlement with the Bennett family in 1995 in a lawsuit case.