The St. Louis Republic., 1900-10-28
Arrest of Joseph F. Weaver Ex-
plains the Systematic RObber-
les of the Last Year.
BOOTY FOUND AT HIS HOME.
All Sorts of Valuable and Fancy
Articles-Chief Pickel in the
Self-Assumed Role of :
Censor of News. s..

The thief who for a year has been sys-
tematically robbing Faust's restaurant and
the Faust home at No il9 Elm street has
been captured In the person OF Joseph r.
Weaver. a head wditer in the upstairs de-
partment of the restaurant All the prop
erty which had been missed was found last
night in Weaver's home at No. 3opl ln0iall;L
avenue, and he MADE luiL Su'AesSion "a
his guilt
The stolen property includes wide vari-
ETY. Of articles. Nothing WAS too small to
attract the light fingers of Weaver There
were delicate lace handkerchfefs. such as
cehutantes carry with them 10 box parties.
Kid gloves, fans. one dozen umbrellas, solid
silver knives, forks and spoons, endless
pieces of bTic-a-brac, stacks of table linen,
articles in cut glass, rubber overshoes and
cpera-giasses. The booty was removed to
the -Four Courts. where It was fully iden-
titled.
Complaints were made from time to time
TO the management of Fausts restaurant
by guests that things which they had
brought IN with them had been lost Mir.
Faust ana his daughter. Mrs. Giannini,
who lives at the Faust home. No. 4i9 Elm
street, also missed articles from time to
time, but did not suspect the trusted head
waiter. They informed the police CT the
LOSSES and detectives were assigned to work
the case.
Detectives Harrington and Schmidt de-
serve the credit oe finally discovering tho
thief. They worked on several ClewS which
led them to suspect Weaver. Yesterday
they arrested him. Mr.. Faust was In
formed Of ;he arrest. and, with Mrs. Z. A
Faust. MIS- Faust and Mrs. Giannfni. ne
: went TO the office of the Chief OF Police at
the Four Courts. where 4 conference was
held
The result was that SVeaver's home was
visited. There his wife had TO get out OF
her sickbed to admit The party. She was
greatly shocked when Informed that her
husband had been rol,bing his employer. A
search OF the house discovered the plies or
property which Weaver had stolen This
was taken charge of by Detectives Harring-
ton and Schmidt. who conveyed II to the
-Four Courts.
Early last evening Mrs. Giannini Indicated
her intention Of telling all the facts con-
nected with the robbery to The Republic.
When a reporter arrived at the Faust resi-
dence az Ii 30. he found that Assistant Chler
OF Police Pickel was on the spot and mad
taken i. upon himself TO keep the facts
from the newspapers Picllel influenced Mrs
GianniIi to tell little or nothing of the rob
berry. HIS well-known news-suppressing pro-
sources nothing would have been learned Of
the affair
'sThe police prefer that We do not give cut
the facts" said Mrs Giannini. and my IA
ther does not know as yet whether he will
prosecute the thief. No, we positively viii
not give out the name. 1t Is probable that
We will allow him to leave the State. lie
has made full confession and all the prop
erty has been recovered The loss to us
will amount to 500 or $3.50"
This does not include the value of articles
stolen from patrons
Weaver has two small children