cracksman

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You may admire the exploits of a “gentleman” cracksman or pickpocket, if you hear or read them with only their ingenuity put before you.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

Bradbury had undertaken too much; his cracksman seemed to the King's advisers as shadowy as the double of Daniel Cox.

From International Short Stories English by Various

It’s empty now, and a cracksman trying to get into it would ruin a perfectly good safe, for nothing.”

From 'Firebrand' Trevison by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

Next morning the suspected prisoners were searched, and the lock-picking instruments were found on the "cracksman," and there the affair ended.

From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Henderson, Frank

That was just his blague; he was having a good time, pretending to be what you took him for--an amateur cracksman; he made up that story to fool you.

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.