Cracksman

It's the 'cracksman' -- the 'cracksman' who went over to the police. ❋ Thomas W. Hanshew (1885)

The fraudulent clerk and the flash "cracksman" interchanged experiences. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Meanwhile the "cracksman," whose cell was opposite, was to unlock the cell doors of all the prisoners in the plot. ❋ A Merchant - Anonymous (N/A)

The chief conspirator was my friend the "cracksman," who made tools out of portions of his bedstead, that opened not only the lock of our own cell, but that of every other cell in the prison, if required. ❋ A Merchant - Anonymous (N/A)

On our removal to England, the "cracksman," was leg-ironed to me as an additional security against his making his escape. ❋ A Merchant - Anonymous (N/A)

Next morning the suspected prisoners were searched, and the lock-picking instruments were found on the "cracksman," and there the affair ended. ❋ A Merchant - Anonymous (N/A)

a "cracksman" and his whole bunch of skeleton keys. ❋ Various (N/A)

'fiddler,'"he wrote;" why, then, should you degrade me with the coarse term of 'cracksman'? ❋ Thomas W. Hanshew (1885)

"You would not think of calling Paganini a 'fiddler,'" he wrote; "why, then, should you degrade me with the coarse term of 'cracksman'? ❋ Thomas W. Hanshew (1885)

Winchester, where he had been informed by an old cracksman ❋ Unknown (2004)

Suddenly the cracksman stepped on something soft that moved. ❋ Bruce Lansky (1997)

Steady nerves, infinite patience, and slow, painstaking, concentrated labour results in what our Eton-and-Balliol cracksman had called “that moment of indescribable giddiness” when the tumbler falls into place. ❋ King, Laurie R. (1995)

"Ah, I happen to be something of an amateur cracksman." ❋ Shatner, William (1991)

Belton's connection -- not to be quoted -- with a cracksman at that moment being diligently inquired for by the New York police with reference to ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

John Burrill, who had come over from England, bringing with him some ill-gotten gains, and who set himself up in New York as a swell cracksman. ❋ Lawrence L. Lynch (N/A)

It's bad enough when T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., sneaks out, bearing a football, like an amateur cracksman making a getaway; but when you appear, imitating ❋ J. Raymond Elderdice (N/A)

This had seemed an ideal place of concealment, and he had secretly conveyed the box there until the prisoner, who was an expert cracksman, should be on hand to open it. ❋ Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower (N/A)

Burke, as desperate a cracksman as the country can produce, with, "complacently," a record second to none in his class. ❋ Frederic S. Isham (N/A)

To her he had been Raffles, the amateur cracksman. ❋ George Weston (N/A)