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...arson. Perhaps only one person in a community of thousands has a hand in triggering a blaze, but the very presence of those thousands is what turns an otherwise messy event deadly. "The same fires happening wouldn't be anywhere near as serious without this development pattern," says Volker Radeloff, a forest ecologist at the University of Wisconsin...
...Wisconsin's Radeloff says those who choose to build homes in fire zones are "gambling with high stakes - and right now many of them are losing." One answer might be to make clear to those who choose to build in the highest-risk areas that they are effectively on their own - a message the insurance industry, which has grown reluctant to protect exposed properties, is communicating to Western home-owners. But while it's easy to see that logic - and to point fingers at the very victims of the fires - this week it's impossible not to focus more...
...reformatory at Lorton, Va., was cleared of complicity in the crime. The motive of robbery suggested itself, for a ring and fur coat worth $5,000 which she had been wearing were missing. Immediate police attention was directed, however, toward one Sam ("Chowderhead") Cohen, onetime burglar, and John A. Radeloff, the dead woman's Brooklyn attorney. These two were held in $50,000 bail following a disclosure in her diary: "I fear only one man and he is Radeloff . . . who, if he wanted, could get Cohen and a couple of his henchmen to do away with...
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