Iowa
Old Press
Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa
September 7, 1926
Girl, Arrested in Cedar Rapids for Abandoning Baby, Says
Iowa Law Student Caused Her Downfall.
Lured to an apartment here by a law student, plied with liquor,
made a victim of her passion, to wind up in jail at Cedar Rapids
facing trial for abandonment of the child, is the fiction-like
tale of Genevieve L. Mugan, 20
years old, of Boone, Iowa, who was registered at the university
last year as a student nurse. The girl is in custody in Cedar
Rapids at present, with one Ole Anderson, who, she said, had
offered her the benefit of his "paternity," for her
nameless child and with whom she had been living recently as his
wife. The couple were arrested after Cedar Rapids police found a
two-weeks-old child abandoned and traced it to them at Mason
City. The true father of the child, the girl says, is a former
law student whose real name she never knew but who is now
practicing his profession in Des Moines, she believes.
Last December she alleges, he took her to an apartment he
maintained here, gave her plenty to drink and when her mind had
become befuddled by liquor, attacked her, the "party"
resulting in the nightmare she has lived through since, ending
finally with her arrest, along with Anderson's, who has promised
to marry her.
Mrs. Anderson, rather, Miss Mugan, left here last spring, after
having taken nurse's training for 11 months, going to Mason City
to visit her brother. There she met Anderson. They later went to
Cedar Rapids, where they lived together for some time. The baby
was born late in August, abandoned shortly thereafter, and the
denouncement followed
[transcribed by C.J.L., November 2005]