Coney-catching Coney-catching Coney-catching is Elizabethan slang for theft through trickery. It comes from the word "coney" (sometimes spelled "conny"), meaning a rabbit raised for the table and thus tame. A coney-catcher was a thief or con man. It was a practice in medieval and Renaissance England in which devious people on the street would try to con or cheat vulnerable or gullible pedestrians. The term appears in "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare, and in the John Florio translation of Montaigne's essay, "Of the Cannibals." The term was first used in print by
A Coney Island Princess A Coney Island Princess A Coney Island Princess is a lost 1916 silent film comedy-drama directed by Dell Henderson and starring Irene Fenwick. It is based on the play "Princess Zim-Zim" by Edward Sheldon. This film marked Fenwick's debut for the Famous Players Film Company, and was partly filmed on location at Coney Island. The story evolves from a spat which Milholland has with his fiancée, Alice Gardner. While imbibing too freely in a foolish effort to assuage the pangs besetting him, he decides to sail for Europe, but he lands at Coney Island via the sight-seeing-car route, and in