![]() I pray that when he reads in the paper or hears on the news that Macklin has been locked up, Eddie will come home.'Īsked 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?'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. 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. 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. The boy died without recovering consciousness three days later. 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. The court order followed a joint request from the County Attorney and the County Medical Examiner.įrom the Derry News, June 25th, 1958 (page 2):įrom the Derry News, June 28th, 1958 (page 2):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. 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. 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.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.' He loved to color the Mr Do posters - that was what he liked best - and now I'm so glad I was able to help him have a little happiness that day.ĭorsey Corcoran's older brother, Edward, ten, is still missing. ![]() He really wanted to color his poster like the other children, so I gave him some baby aspirin and let him color while the others were having Story Time. I felt like crying, looking at his poor, dear fingers. "Daddy had to take me up 'cause I'm bad" was the way he put it. Macklin) had bent his fingers back because he had walked across a floor his mother had just washed and waxed. When I asked Dorsey what happened, he said that his father (stepfather Richard P. The fingers were swelled up like sausages. ![]() 'It was hurting him enough so that the poor little guy couldn't color his Mr Do safety poster,' the teacher said. 'DADDY HAD TO TAKE ME UP 'CAUSE I'M BAD,'
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