Adam Tiler

noun1

1. •
   (no longer used) A pickpocket's accomplice; the person who takes the goods a pickpocket steals and leaves with them.

   • He waved his hand. "Well, you know how these sods gas. Most likely there's nothing in it. It's a cert Gursey sank dead on the gutter at the Flat. It'd be hard to prove he was Jem's Adam Tiler." — 1934