cracksman

It's the 'cracksman' -- the 'cracksman' who went over to the police.

Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

The fraudulent clerk and the flash "cracksman" interchanged experiences.

For the term of his natural life 2004

Meanwhile the "cracksman," whose cell was opposite, was to unlock the cell doors of all the prisoners in the plot.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

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.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

On our removal to England, the "cracksman," was leg-ironed to me as an additional security against his making his escape.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

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

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

a "cracksman" and his whole bunch of skeleton keys.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

'fiddler,'"he wrote;" why, then, should you degrade me with the coarse term of 'cracksman'?

Cleek, the Master Detective 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'?

Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

Winchester, where he had been informed by an old cracksman

Ralph Rashleigh 2004