Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...late 1700's, an all-female syndicate known as the Forty Elephants started their well-planned crime spree. The Forty Elephants (also known as The Forty Thieves) used clever thievery to wreak havoc on t...  ...avoc on...

Did you think Victorian women were meek and de...  ...own in London's rough and tumble underworld. The Forty Elephants were a kind of ladies' auxiliary to the Elephant...  ...or his new book, Gangs of London. The all-female Forty Elephants ran a large shoplifting operation in London and e...