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Louisville, Kentucky, July 9th, 1950.

While a hysterical mother waited in jail, police last night pushed their search to find a man about 30,

believed to have kidnapped her pretty three-year-old daughter Friday night. The child, Joyce Jones Shouse, was taken from a cafe at

315 East Market, police said, while the mother, Mrs. Florine E. Shouse, 29, drank beer.

A description of the alleged captor, furnished by persons in the cafe at the time, was broadcast by police several times yesterday.

Police and surrounding cities were asked to be on the lookout for the man who appeared stoop-shouldered and weighed about a hundred pounds.

A woman sitting in the front of the cafe at the time saw the hunchback walk out the door shortly after the child.

The woman said that Joyce Joan, a blue-eyed blonde with naturally curly hair, had been running back and forth through the cafe.

Several times, the hunchback went out the door after the child and took her back to her mother.

Quote, when I saw him go out the door the last time, I thought he was going after the child to bring her back to her mother."

The woman said it was ten or fifteen minutes after the child had gone out the door the last time,

before the mother became aware she was missing. Mrs. Shouse was sitting in the rear of the cafe.

The woman said the hunchback had been talking to Joyce

Joan, but the child did not act as if she knew the man. She added that she never had seen the

hunchback or Mrs. Schausse before. The mother, charged with drunkenness, disorderly conduct,

and contributing to the delinquency of a minor,

was held in jail and default of a $500 bond. Police said Miss Schauss was so hysterical

they had difficulty in questioning her. She did tell them, however, she was in the cafe with a

male friend and her young daughter about 11.30 p.m.

Quote, my husband Robert Schauss and I have been separated for a year.

The little girl ran to the back of the cafe.

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