Find your ancestors in Victoria Police Gazette 1876

If you had family living in Victoria in 1870s, have you thought of looking at the Police Gazettes for information? These are a historian's goldmine of information. Compiled to be distributed amongst the Police Force only, these Gazettes contain details and information that can not be found anywhere else. Far from just listing those who were in the Police Force, or those that were on the 'wrong side' of the law - you will also find entries of missing persons, or they might be a witness to crime, or they may have had something stolen from them, or they may even have found an item, and reported it to the Police.

Of course you also get weekly information on housebreaking, robberies, arson, murders, lost horses and cattle, deserters, escaped prisoners and reports on those released ... as well as some information from interstate police gazettes.
Example entry taken from the 11 January 1876 issue:
Miscellaneous Information
On the 8th instant, about noon, a bullet was fired through the shop window of Messrs. Wallach Bros., 158 Elizabeth street, Melbourne. Suspicion rests against J. Dyer, greengrocer, Simpson's road. £10 reward on conviction.-O.168 11th January 1876.

Example entry taken from the 27 December 1876 issue:
Felonies and Offences not Otherwise Described
See Police Gazette, 1876, p.331
Gerard E. Gaffney, charged with uttering valueless cheques, left a valaise behind him, in which were a quantity of coining implements.-O7300. 24th December 1876.