• A misunderstanding leads to an accusation of theft and a missed concert
• Praise for one old copper while a sharp eyed dealer intercepts the theft of another…
• The theft of a canary bandana
• An opportunistic ‘white van’ theft
• ‘Daring robbery’ on an American ship (and some causal racism in the London press).

Pickpockets

• Preying on unwary visitors to the Zoological Gardens
• A ‘daring robbery’ or an opportunistic pickpocket?
• One funeral and two pickpockets
• One of the ‘most expert pickpockets in London’ is caught red handed

Shoplifting

• From glad rags and riches to a prison cell: one Victorian lady’s fall from grace
• ‘When ladies go a thieving’: shoplifting in Westbourne Park
• A respectable ‘kleptomaniac’ is caught out at the Soho Bazaar
• A ‘fishy’ character caught shoplifting in the City

Theft at work

• The solicitor’s clerk and Commissioner Ye’s fur coat

 

Burglary

Burglary tops the bill in the early records of the London Police Courts

‘Long Bob’ is nabbed as the American Civil War causes ripples in Blackfriars

A burglary in the Haymarket

A burglar nabbed by a quick thinking householder and a brave bobby