cracksmen

From the swell mob, we diverge to the kindred topics of cracksmen, fences, public-house dancers, area-sneaks, designing young people who go out ‘gonophing,’ and other ‘schools.’

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Do not cracksmen, when assembled together, entertain themselves with stories of glorious old burglaries which they or bygone heroes have committed?

Roundabout Papers 2006

He liked to think he was consorting with all sorts of men — so he beheld coalheavers in their tap-rooms; boxers in their inn-parlours; honest citizens disporting in the suburbs or on the river; and he would have liked to hob and nob with celebrated pickpockets, or drink a pot of ale with a company of burglars and cracksmen, had chance afforded him an opportunity of making the acquaintance of this class of society.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Or, if you MUST pursue your calling as cracksmen, have the goodness to try some other shutters.

Roundabout Papers 2006

The expert cracksmen in the mail car had done their work.

At Bertram's Hotel Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1965

The most respectable men in London were present at the feast; there were nine cracksmen, five highwaymen, twelve pickpockets, two murderers, three gentlemen who had escaped from transportation, and a smart sprinkling of small workmen, in the way of _fogle hunters_, (handkerchief thieves,) and _body snatchers_,

Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life George Thompson

Ezras, who received and negotiated the sale of the stolen goods, and who is as keen a rascal as ever escaped justice, and two noted cracksmen, who had headquarters in the city, and were famous in their day, but who were compelled to withdraw in the midst of their high career, one dying of a malignant fever, the other being killed by a woman.

The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch

'It will be the work of a little band of expert cracksmen that the Continent has kindly sent us.

The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post

Pickering, having followed him with the eye of fear, went rather shakily into the house, his brain whirling with professional cracksmen and gas pipes and assaulted butlers, to relate his adventure.

Uneasy Money 1928

"Go to bed, Jimmy," said the portrayer of cracksmen.

The Intrusion of Jimmy 1928