![]() 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. ![]() 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. 'DADDY HAD TO TAKE ME UP 'CAUSE I'M BAD,'įrom the Derry News, June 22nd, 1958 (page 1):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. Now I think I just couldn't believe an adult could do such a thing to a little person. I guess at first I thought he must have fallen because he couldn't grip very well with that hand. 'When he died it never crossed my mind to think it was anything but an accident. I pray that when he reads in the paper or hears on the news that Macklin has been locked up, Eddie will come home.'įrom the Derry News, June 25th, 1958 (page 2): 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 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.įrom the Derry News, June 24th, 1958 (page 1): 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. TOT TOLD NURSERY TEACHER BEFORE BEATING DEATH The court order followed a joint request from the County Attorney and the County Medical Examiner.įrom the Derry News, June 28th, 1958 (page 2): 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. 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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