cracksman

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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

Who would connect that all too common occurrence, a tramp maimed by the railroad, with, the mysterious disappearance of the cracksman, Slippy McGee?

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway

She has not been like it since the cracksman broke with her, Toinette.

From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Hanshew, Thomas W.

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.

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