e. “Shop-lifters,” or those who purloin goods from shops while examining articles.
2. “Sneaksmen,” or those who plunder by means of stealth.
a. Those who purloin goods, provisions, money, clothes, old metal, &c.
i. “Drag Sneaks,” or those who steal goods or luggage from carts and coaches.
ii. “Snoozers,” or those who sleep at railway hotels, and decamp with some passenger’s luggage or property in the morning.
iii. “Star-glazers,” or those who cut the panes out of shop-windows.
iv. “Till Friskers,” or those who empty tills of their contents during the absence of the shopmen.
v. “Sawney-Hunters,” or those who go purloining bacon from cheesemongers’ shop-doors.
vi. “Noisy-racket Men,” or those who steal china and glass from outside of china-shops.
vii. “Area Sneaks,” or those who steal from houses by going down the area steps.