cracksman

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It was then they learned that an expert cracksman had entered, that an expert had opened the safe without blowing it open or forcing it open.

From Death Points a Finger by Levinrew, Will

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

The professional cracksman would probably have shaved, whereupon the first amateur detective he met would reconstruct the beard on the sunburned lines.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis

That devil—that renegade—that fury, Cleek, the cracksman, is here.

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

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