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...Cambridge Fire Department's Arson Squad and Harvard Police are investigating a suspicious fire in Winthrop House that occured Thursday evening, police said yesterday...
Cambridge Arson Squad Inspector Thomas C. Levins said there are no suspects yet, but refused to comment further...
According to Merkin, the police believed the fire was an arson because everyone in the suite was leaving by the time police and firemen arrived. The students either left for the football game at the University of Pennsylvania or went to classes, Merkin said...
Merkin said he thought the fire was accidental, and that after questioning the members of the suite, the police were satisfied that it was not a case of arson...
...chided Bell as an absentee landlord who let the building deteriorate for its five low-and moderate-income tenants. Within a year and a half after Doyle's original application for demolition--before the site was declared a landmark--two cases of arson gutted the structure. After some tenants moved out after the first fire. Woodward accuses Bell of removing the units' radiators to discourage future tenants. After the second confirmed arson. "Bell left the building exposed to the elements for two years," according to Woodward...