Housebreaking [noun]

At length he deserted from the army, assumed a new name, and prevailed on some of his companions to engage in housebreaking.

After they were secured, their retreat was found to contain all the necessary implements for housebreaking, and abundance of arms.

Housebreaking is a very different business from the forcible entry of country post-offices, and The Hopper was nervous.

I wished that there had been a college course in housebreaking, prowling and second-story operations.

Then it occurred to me that—aside from my one experience in housebreaking—that I'd been playing according to the rules.

This is not the case in Hamilton and Toronto, where daring acts of housebreaking are of frequent occurrence.

A burglar would have seemed clean and honest compared to the gentleman housebreaking on such an errand.

Was “Margaret” here, or had the police come to arrest Mary Louise for housebreaking?

The long and the short of it is, Master Sam will turn to housebreaking, if somebody doesn't get hold of him.

Old implements of housebreaking were discovered; and the thief-taker's most hidden depositories were laid bare.