thief-takers

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Violent Crime Alert - Inspector Who? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

His 2001 book, Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750 Oxford University Press describes in meticulous detail the efforts of the magistrates, constables, thief-takers, and others to cope with the criminal energies of the expanding metropolis.

Archive 2008-11-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

His 2001 book, Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750 Oxford University Press describes in meticulous detail the efforts of the magistrates, constables, thief-takers, and others to cope with the criminal energies of the expanding metropolis.

Sutherland Prize to John Beattie on Sir John Fielding Dan Ernst 2008

But I had the most eager desire of demolishing this gang of villains and cut-throats, which I was sure of accomplishing the moment I was enabled to pay a fellow who had undertaken, for a small sum, to betray them into the hands of a set of thief-takers whom I had enlisted into the service, all men of known and approved fidelity and intrepidity.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

“What, then,” exclaimed the philosopher, “you intend to co-operate with the honourable fraternity of thief-takers?”

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

Two pairs of thief-takers ran ahead of him, traveling by the Road and by the frost line.

Destiny's Road Niven, Larry 1997

There is no deposition whatever, no warrant, and yet a peaceable man, going about in his lawful business, has been seized by your thief-takers and made prisoner.

The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

Perhaps the same argument holds in Paris as in London, against totally suppressing the haunts of these depredators on society, _That if there were no thieves there would be no thief-takers_; and the police are content to keep within moderate bounds, a set of men who often contribute to their emolument, and whom they fear to exterminate.

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard

Having thus disposed of the thief-takers, he set out for Warroch Head alone.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

I had gone to sleep in the Squire's elbow-chair before the hall fire, with the zealous thief-takers in attendance, turn and turn about, as sentries over me, fifty guineas being well worth guarding.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough