![]() When asked why she had not reported a beating of such obvious severity, Mrs Dumont said, 'This isn't the first time I've seen such a thing as this in my career as a teacher. Asked if either Mr or Mrs Macklin was under suspicion in either the younger boy's death or the older boy's disappearance, Chief Richard Borton declined comment. I got the message.'Įdward Corcoran, ten, was reported missing late Wednesday. He said a reprimand did not have to be on a teacher's record. I asked him if a reprimand in a matter like that would go on my record. I went to the principal and he told me to forget it or I would be reprimanded. She told me that when school employees get involved in cases of suspected child abuse, it always comes back to haunt the School Department at tax appropriation tune. I was told by the assistant principal, Gwendolyn Rayburn in those days, to stay out of it. The first few times I had a student with a parent who was confusing beatings with discipline, I tried to do something about it. 'I'm telling you that right now, and when I die I'll stand at the Throne of Judgment and look God right in the eye and tell Him the same thing.'įrom the Derry News, June 24th, 1958 (page 1): 'Rich never beat Dorsey, and he never beat Eddie, either,' she said. In a brief telephone interview Monica Macklin hotly refuted Mrs Dumont's charges. Dorsey Corcoran was beaten within an inch of his life and then dumped off at the Home Hospital emergency room to die.' The wounds, particularly those in the skull, are not at all consistent with those which might be incurred in a fall. Right now the important thing is the medical examiner's conclusion that this boy was struck repeated blows with some object hard enough to break his bones. When asked what sort of instrument, Borton said: 'It might have been a hammer. Although Macklin claimed the boy had fallen from a stepladder while playing in the garage, Borton said the County Medical Examiner's report showed that Dorsey Corcoran was severely beaten with some blunt instrument. 'The medical examiner's report shows that the boy was badly beaten,' Borton said. The Corcoran boy died in Derry Home Hospital of reported 'accidental causes' on May 31st of last year. Macklin, of 73 Charter Street, had been arrested and charged with the murder of his stepson, Dorsey Corcoran. The court order followed a joint request from the County Attorney and the County Medical Examiner.Ĭhief Richard Borton of the Derry Police called a news conference yesterday to announce that Richard P. Moulton ordered the exhumation of Corcoran's younger brother, Dorsey, late yesterday. In a bizarre new twist to the disappearance of Edward Corcoran, Derry District Court Judge Erhardt K. I pray that when he reads in the paper or hears on the news that Macklin has been locked up, Eddie will come home.' Mrs Dumont went on, 'Since this thing came out I get down on my knees every night and pray that Eddie Corcoran just got fed up with that beast of a stepfather and ran away. From his cell in Derry County Jail, Richard Macklin continues to deny any part in either the death of his younger stepson or the disappearance of the older boy. ![]() When I asked him what happened, he said his father had "taken him up" for not eating his supper.'Īsked if the doctors who treated the Corcoran boy might have been derelict in their duty when it came to reporting either an incidence of child abuse or the actual cause of death, Borton said, 'They will have serious questions to answer when Mr Macklin comes to trial.'ĭorsey Corcoran's older brother, Edward, ten, is still missing. Henrietta Dumont, who teaches fifth grade at Derry Elementary School on Jackson Street, said that Edward Corcoran, who has now been missing for nearly a week, often came to school 'covered with bruises.' Mrs Dumont, who has taught one of Derry's two fifth-grade classes since the end of World War II, said that the Corcoran boy came to school one day about three weeks before his disappearance 'with both eyes nearly closed shut. Under Suspicion in Unsolved Disappearance TOT TOLD NURSERY TEACHER BEFORE BEATING DEATH From the Derry News, June 22nd, 1958 (page 1): ![]()
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