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N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 12 Dec. 2/3: He was proved however to have been one of the swell mob of London, and known to the Bow street officers as a notorious thief.at swell mob, n.
N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 12 Dec. 2/3: He was proved however to have been one of the swell mob of London, and known to the Bow street officers as a notorious thief. N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 5 Dec. 1/7: J. Edwards, a sort of stool pigeon as he is called by the department [and] Brightly [stole and pawned the coat]. Turning traitor to his accomplice, [Edwards] informed against him sufficiently to have him arrested, hoping to escape himself on account of his assistance in arresting other rogues.at stool-pigeon, n.1
N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 30 Apr. 2/4: [Street gamblers are caught] in the act of gambling on a certain cloth, commonly called a ‘Sweat Cloth’, with dice boxes, &c.at sweat board (n.) under sweat, n.
N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 25 Nov. 1/7: On Friday morning, Mrs. Ellen Lazard, the mistress of a house of infamy at No. 16 Centre street with [4 whores] and Charles Van Doren, the bully of the house [were arrested].at bully, n.1
N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 20 Jan. 2/5: [A burglar had] instruments . . . for breaking open stores and houses, and among them an instrument called a London Jemmy (a short crow bar).at jemmy, n.3
N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 21 Aug. 2/4: [A man attended] a Free and Easy, at the Brown Jug in Pearl street, near Elm, and spent the night until after one o’clock, in drinking and singing.at free-and-easy, n.
N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 15 July 1/7: [headline] Flash Notes.at flash note (n.) under flash, adj.
N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 1 Apr. 2/3–4: From the desperation of the villain, they were compelled to consider it a strong go for life or death, and resolved to act with vigor accordingly.at go, n.1
N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 24 Sept. 2/3: Bowyer, the officer, [...] kept a sharp look out for the offender Twigging his man, he went up to him.at twig, v.2
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