The articles mentioned in the preceding paragraph are not infrequently described as stolen goods, brought to the houses by peddlers who are hired to dispose of them by crooks and shoplifters.
"Commercialized Prostitution in New York City"
George Jackson Kneeland
And I'm up against one of the cleverest shoplifters that ever entered a department-store, apparently.
"The Dream Doctor"
Arthur B. Reeve
Through plate after plate of pictures among the shoplifters in the regular Rogues' Gallery the clerk went.
"The Dream Doctor"
Arthur B. Reeve