Light-fingered

Tom complained that a light-fingered pilferer who'd briefly brushed against him at the crowded train station had carried off his wallet.

There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; […] yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.