cracksman

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After a series of remarkable events their trip ended with the capture of a society “cracksman,” known to the police as the “Boy Raffles.”

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He had had on board escaping murderers, defaulting company promoters, fraudulent trustees, absconding cashiers, and a variety of other criminals from the "flash" cracksman to the common "lag".

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But unless he happens to leave his name and address a cracksman working on a fair sized crib is never caught.

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Now, suppose that a descent were made on the largest one of these safe depositories in America, the one under the New York Stock Exchange, and by a dozen first-class cracksmen.

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With improvements in safes there has come a corresponding improvement in cracksmen’s methods.

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