Thief-taker

"Thief-taker" in a Sentence (2 examples)

The thief-taker arrested many thieves at the same time.

In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.

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