Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK/US Und.) a newspaper that lists stolen articles; spec. the National Police Gazette (NY).

1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 31/2: Didn’t I see it in the ‘huey’ describing the several articles which were in the ‘dummy’.
1867		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 21 Sept. n.p.: Not a day passes that we do not see an account of some country merchant being ‘put through’ in ‘Romeville’ [...] It may not be uninteresting to readers of the ‘Huey’ to know [etc].
1929		C.G. Gordon Crooks of the Und. 205: They are detained by a suspicious pawnbroker whilst a policeman is sent for, after requesting a loan upon an article which the pawnbroker has recognised as being included in his police list of stolen property – known in the underworld as the ‘Huey,’ probably owning to the fact that the list was originally published under the title of the ‘Hue and Cry’.