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Show APPALLING LIST Banks and Payrolls Robbed on Tremendous Scale in Chicago Chi-cago and Suburbs. KILL SEVEN POLICEMEN Automobile Makes Modern Bandit Raid Possible Bands Lie in Waiting. CHICAGO. Dec. 20. Robbery of the State Bank of Summit, a suburb, early today, of ?30,000 or more, called attention atten-tion to the appalling list of bank and payroll robberies in Chicago and suburbs su-burbs in the last eighteen months. According to an official of a big burglary insurance company, there havo been seventeen bank robberies, lf netting approximately $100,000. and IH fourteen payroll robberies of insured firms, netting $200,000 to the bandits in H the period mentioned. The'depreda- jH tions havo cost the lives of seven po- IH A long series of house burglaries led jH to an increase of 10 per cent in the burglar insurance rates on residents and appartments. Payroll robberies last month resulted In an Increase of H 33 1-3 per cent in payroll insurance. H Banks, it was said, will come noxt. lH The automobile has made the mod- jH cm robber raid possible. The robbers, j IH usually young, numbering four or five, fH lie in wait unnoticed among other ma- H chines, for the appearance of tho pay- H roll messenger or descend suddenly on H a Jl |