In English legal history, a thief-taker was a private individual hired to capture criminals. The widespread establishment of professional police in England...
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Wild, also spelled Wilde (1682 or 1683 – 24 May 1725), was an English thief-taker and a major figure in London's criminal underworld, notable for operating...
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victims of the Gloom. Garrett evades Northcrest's right-hand man, the Thief-Taker General, and retrieves the ring. There, he meets a man called Orion,...
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(Pilot) Thief-taker "Thief Takers". Tv.com. Archived from the original on 27 May 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017. "ITV Studios - Thief Takers". Archived...
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"It Takes a Thief" may refer to: The Challenge (1960 film), a British crime film It Takes a Thief (film), a 1999 Hong Kong film featuring Yukari Oshima...
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as Charles Hitchin in other sources, (c. 1675 – 1727) was an English thief-taker and under-marshal of the City of London in the early 18th century, also...
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It Takes a Thief is the debut studio album by American rapper Coolio. It was released on July 19, 1994, on Warner Bros. Records. The album received praise...
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Bounty (reward) (section Rewards and thief-takers)
overincentivizing. This led to the development of the profession of thief-taker. They were part of the criminal underworld, but they were seen as offering...
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as "pretended Thiefe-taker" in a 1707 document, used their social power as thief-takers as an advantage for receiving. Thief-takers were usually so involved...
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"Grey Fox" for his shrewdness. He was Scotland Yard's most formidable thief-taker and, as an unmarried man who still lived with his mother, he had a fanatical...
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Thief is a series of stealth video games in which the player takes the role of Garrett, a master thief in a fantasy steampunk world resembling a cross...
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Set in a fantasy metropolis called the City, players take on the role of Garrett, a master thief trained by a secret society who, while carrying out a...
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him to the self-styled "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild around 1714. He left school and became a professional thief. By the age of 17, he...
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of becoming England's greatest highwayman while being pursued by the thief-taker Jonathan Wilde and the secretive criminal organisation, The Syndicate...
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It Takes a Thief is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for three seasons between 1968 and 1970. It stars Robert Wagner in...
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Honest Thief is a 2020 American action thriller film directed by Mark Williams, from a screenplay by Williams and Steve Allrich. The film stars Liam Neeson...
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Kingdom Metropolitan Police Old Bailey Police officer Private police Thief-taker Newman 1997, p. 69. Cox 2010. Hichcock & Shoemaker 2006, p. 1. Beattie...
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criminal working with his partner Rob. When Rob is killed by sadistic Thief Taker General Chance after a botched heist outside debtor's prison, Plunkett...
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criminal career after less than two years. The inability of the notorious "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild to control Sheppard, and injuries suffered by...
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final time. Historical analyst Gerald Howson argues in his 1985 book, Thief-Taker General: Jonathan Wild and the Emergence of Crime and Corruption As a...
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Thief is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, set in Nazi Germany during World War II. Published in 2005, The Book Thief...
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agent of such surety, engage in the business of taking or attempting to take into custody the principal on the bond who has failed to appear in court...
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Take a Thief: A Novel of Valdemar is a 2001 young-adult novel by American writer Mercedes Lackey. It is the third in the Heralds of Valdemar series, and...
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Thief is a 1981 American neo-noir heist film written and directed by Michael Mann in his feature film debut. It stars James Caan as a professional safecracker...
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A gentleman thief, gentleman burglar, lady thief, or phantom thief is a stock character in fiction. A gentleman or lady thief is characterised by impeccable...
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Look up thief in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A thief is a person who takes another person's property or services without consent. Thief or thieves...
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career in bare-knuckle boxing, Weaver has found a new calling as a 'thief-taker'—roughly equivalent to a modern private investigator. Believing that...
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Hitchin) member of the Society for the Reformation of Manners, notable thief-taker, former Under City Marshal in London, was described as a regular in molly-houses...
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suggested that the term was inspired by the practice of 18th-century British thief taker and criminal Jonathan Wild, who kept a ledger of his transactions and...
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (also known as Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief) is a 2010 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus...
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