ransomer

There are a number of components that allow us to profile the ransomer, who is most likely also the thief.

The Art Thief

You can ignore the ransomer, and hope the police track him down, or you can try to draw the ransomer into a trap, helping the police.

The Art Thief

So determined was Saint Raymond Nonnatus that when Peter Nolasco retired as chief ransomer, the saint succeeded him in this office.

Old Calendar: St. Raymond Nonnatus

But perhaps even this is not always true; e.g. should a man who has been ransomed out of the hands of brigands ransom his ransomer in return, whoever he may be (or pay him if he has not been captured but demands payment) or should he ransom his father?

The Nicomachean Ethics

The victor was defeated, the monarch was dethroned, the ransomer of prisoners was in captivity, the general was deserted by his soldiers, the master abandoned by his domestics, the brother parted from his brethren, the husband severed from the wife, and the father torn from his only child.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827

Raymond made such progress in the religious life that he was soon considered worthy to succeed his master in the office of ransomer.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

Agias was full of protestations of delight at beholding his intercessor and ransomer.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.

Thou hast loosed my bonds, and thereby bound me for ever to wear Thy yoke '; as the slave clings to his ransomer, and delights to serve him all the days of his life?

Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah

But perhaps even this is not always true; e.g. should a man who has been ransomed out of the hands of brigands ransom his ransomer in return, whoever he may be (or pay him if he has not been captured but demands payment) or should he ransom his father?

The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS

In the discharge of his office of ransomer, he purchased at Algiers the liberty of a great number of slaves.

Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated; Translated from the Spanish, by R. R. Madden, M.D. With the History of the Early Life of the Negro Poet, Written by Himself; to Which Are Prefixed Two Pieces Descriptive of Cuban Slavery and the Slave-Traffic, by R. R. M.