Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black) to steal.

1919		R.N. Johnson Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken 40: Carlin ‘five-fingered’ a ‘B’deck pass from the officers’ mess-hall [HDAS].
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 200: Someone five-fingered a textbook-sized book of his unrecorded rhymes.