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Reminisce on12/31/2022 ![]() ![]() 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. TOT TOLD NURSERY TEACHER BEFORE BEATING DEATHĭorsey 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 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. ![]() 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. 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.' 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. 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. ![]() '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):įrom the Derry News, June 28th, 1958 (page 2): '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. 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. The court order followed a joint request from the County Attorney and the County Medical Examiner.įrom the Derry News, June 22nd, 1958 (page 1):įrom the Derry News, June 25th, 1958 (page 2):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?'ĭorsey Corcoran's older brother, Edward, ten, is still missing. 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. ![]()
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