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 boy died without recovering consciousness three days later.Ī local nursery-school teacher who declined to be identified told a News reporter yesterday that young Dorsey Corcoran came to his twice-weekly nursery-school class with bad sprains of his right thumb and three fingers of his right hand less than a week before his death in a purported garage accident.Ĭhief Richard Borton of the Derry Police called a news conference yesterday to announce that Richard P. He stated that Dorsey Corcoran had been playing on a stepladder in the garage and had apparently fallen from the top. Macklin, the boy's stepfather, was the admitting person. The boy was brought into the Derry Home Hospital suffering from multiple fractures, including a fractured skull. I got the message.'ĭorsey Corcoran, who also lived with his mother and stepfather at 73 Charter Street, died of what were reported to be accidental causes in May of 1957. 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. 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. '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.' '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. Under Suspicion in Unsolved Disappearance TEACHER SAYS EDWARD CORCORAN 'OFTEN BRUISED' 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.įrom the Derry News, June 22nd, 1958 (page 1):įrom the Derry News, June 24th, 1958 (page 1):Īsked if the attitude in the Derry school system remained the same now, Mrs Dumont said, 'Well, what does it look like, in light of this current situation? And I might add that I would not be speaking to you now if I hadn't retired at the end of this school year.'įrom the Derry News, June 28th, 1958 (page 2): 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.Įdward Corcoran, ten, was reported missing late Wednesday. When I asked him what happened, he said his father had "taken him up" for not eating his supper.'įrom the Derry News, June 25th, 1958 (page 2):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. The court order followed a joint request from the County Attorney and the County Medical Examiner. 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. 'DADDY HAD TO TAKE ME UP 'CAUSE I'M BAD,'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.' Asked for an opinion on how these developments might bear on the recent disappearance of Dorsey Corcoran's older brother, Edward, reported missing by Richard and Monica Macklin four days ago, Chief Borton answered: 'I think it looks much more serious than we first supposed, don't you?'
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