A cracksman by the name of Travers was convicted of the crime.
But even this has been discounted by an experiment before a United States government commission, showing that electricity can be so applied as to give the scientific cracksman a greater field for operation than ever before.
The Cracksman consigned the money to his fob, and then took leave of his employer, hoping "that he should have his custom in future.
Having therefore given a few instructions, in a whisper, to the old woman, he prepared to accompany the Cracksman and the Buffer.
Meantime, the Resurrection Man pursued one route, and the Cracksman another, both converging towards the same point; but neither individual suspected that danger was on every side!
The Cracksmangave a significant nod and took his departure.
Such a sum might tempt even Dick Flairer or Tom theCracksman to betray him.
Astonished by this strange event, Bill Bolter instantly turned his eyes from Montague, whom he was at that moment about to attack, towards the Cracksman and Walter Sydney.
At length Bill Bolter, who required every possible means of artificial stimulant and excitement to sustain his spirits in the fearful predicament in which he was placed, called upon the Cracksman for a song.
Perfectly well," answered the Resurrection Man; "because it was on that evening that I and the poor Cracksman helped young Holford over the Palace wall.
And there's them as is too close when we haven't it," returned the Cracksman bitterly.
The surgeon and the Cracksmanfollowed the Buffer to the southern side of the church where there was a flight of steps leading up to a side-door in a species of lobby, or lodge.
The three body-snatchers retraced their steps to the house in the vicinity of the Bird-cage Walk; and the Cracksman and Buffer, having deposited the implements of their avocation in the corner of the front room, took their departure.
Cracksman in a hoarse whisper: "why--I knocked the fellow down to be sure.
And they also spoke of the way in which the police had followed you and the Cracksman to the house," said the Rattlesnake.
As the clock struck nine, the Resurrection Man and the Cracksman entered the "Boozing Ken.
Disappointed and in an ill-humour, the Resurrection Man and the Cracksman hurried away from the Dark-House towards the den situate in the immediate vicinity of the Bird-cage Walk.
His paltry sense of discipline permitted him to be betrayed even by his brother and pupil, and there was no cracksman of his time over whose head he held the rod of terror.
The fop, indeed, had climbed the altitudes of life; the cracksman still stumbled in the valleys.
Beyond the garden wall frowned a railway embankment, which enabled the cracksman to escape from his house without opening the front door.
The common shop-lifter and the great cracksman alike did business at this famous place.
For the love of God get me a respite for the innocent man, and I will undertake to bring the crime home to the cracksman and to his confederate Cowen.
This man was no clerk, but, as I believe, the cracksman that did the job at the 'Swan.
The cracksman opened the door with his tools, unless Cowen made him duplicate keys.
Bradbury had undertaken too much; his cracksman seemed to the King's advisers as shadowy as the double of Daniel Cox.
When his writhings had ceased the cracksman removed his lantern and laid it lightly on the floor outside.
His pillow lay close to the point of the wall where Dobbs liked to do his talking, and while the midnight bell was ringing he thought he heard the cracksman whisper: "The young lady stretched it, chummy.
Their shadows were thrown forward beyond the corner, so that the cracksman could not get within a yard of the edge.
But thecracksman must have fallen out with his own likeness as Iago, for his thumb-nail was clean as a whistle.
In the detective's subtle eye the keen observer might have discovered a finesse and a suppleness not altogether remote from the corresponding traits in the cracksman whom he had impersonated.
The cracksman had made a bee-line for the twenty-foot wall.
The light came nearer and nearer and suddenly he heard thecracksman groaning piteously.
Floyd, nibbling a pretzel, while the cracksman helped himself liberally to the ale.
No single cracksman paramount, no code, No master spirit, that will take the road, But equal dearth of pluck and highwaymen!
These fumes would discourage a cracksman from 'soup' to nuts," he laughed, thoroughly pleased at the protection modern science had enabled him to devise.
It's the most amazing case I ever saw in that respect--almost as if we had a cracksman in the fourth dimension to whom the inside of a closed cube is as accessible as is the inside of a plane square to us three dimensional creatures.
Without another word he was gone into the blackness of the noxious stifle which filled the Radium Corporation office since the cracksman had struck the unexpected pocket of rapidly evaporating stuff.
As the swellmobsman stands at the head of this school, so the cracksman or housebreaker stands on the highest pinnacle of the other great division of crime which attains its ends by force and courage.
The cracksman laboured hard and long to keep up the hymn, and noise enough was made to cover the designs of less adroit confederates than his own.
The cracksman accordingly got himself up as a preacher, studied the peculiar method of holding forth in favour with the sect, wore a white neckerchief, assumed the nasal whine, and laid in a powerful stock of scripture phrases.
The frequency of these robberies should put housekeepers on their guard as to what followers are allowed, lest the "young man" should turn out to be a regular cracksman in disguise.
I still remember waiting with bated breath for Raffles to ask Maguire if he were not afraid of burglars, and Maguire replying that he had a trap to catch the cleverest cracksman alive, but flatly refusing to tell us what it was.
A Trap to Catch a Cracksman I was just putting out my light when the telephone rang a furious tocsin in the next room.
She has not been like it since the Cracksman broke with her, Toinette.
And to have the whole blessed country terrorized, the police defied, and people's houses invaded with impunity by a gutter-bred brute of a cracksman is nothing short of a scandal and a shame!
If you and her father would have me hand over the other half to you, and would have The Vanishing Cracksman disappear forever, and a useless life converted into a useful one, you have only to say so to make it an accomplished thing.
And rely upon this as a certainty: The Vanishing Cracksman will never get away with even one of those jewels if he enters that house to-night, and never get out of it unshackled!
Bat waved a hand and thecracksman disappeared through a door upon which was painted the word "Private.
It was the cracksman who had spoken of the undependability of women.
In about ten minutes Craig displayed a neat little hole in the safe door opposite the one made by the cracksman in the combination.
Who was this scientific cracksman who had apparently accomplished the impossible?
And a cracksman of high repute lodged already on the ground-floor.
As soon as the startled cracksman recovered his astonishment at such audacity, and comprehended the nature of the charge against himself and his family, he felt the more indignant from a strange and unfamiliar consciousness of innocence.
At that summons Bill the cracksman imprudently presented a full view of his countenance through his barred window; he drew it back with astonishing celerity, but not in time to escape the eye of the Bow-Street runner.
On the rising geniuses around him Bill the cracksman looked, and his father's heart was proud.
In the interval, leisure had been given to the cracksman to remove all trace of the wonted educational employment of his hopeful children.
Fraught with this noble resolution, the sweep caught up his broom, crept down the ladder, and with a furtive glance at the door of the room in which the cracksman lived, let himself out and shambled his way to his crossing.
It was a death-trap into which he had lured Dexter and which he had left baited for whomsoever might trace the cracksman to the Gate House.
Old Baird has at last spotted that I'm not quite the common cracksman I would have him think me.
Our cracksman worked slowly and surely, laying the bricks in the bottom of the drain so as to form a floor on which to stand.
Storri, who had been studying London Bill as hard as ever that cracksman was studying him, re-began in earnest.
Storri would have come oftener to observe how London Bill fared with his work, but the cracksman discountenanced the thought.
It must be plate or jewels;--and yet I was talking to an old cracksman this very evening, and if there had been a smash last night of any consequence he would have been safe to know it and tell me.
He had a gun, but a knife, the old cracksman had said, was much better for a fight in the dark and it had the superlative virtue of noiselessness.
The oldcracksman had not warned him of that blinding flash or that sputtering, loud enough, so it seemed, to be heard a block away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cracksman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
