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. TEACHER SAYS EDWARD CORCORAN 'OFTEN BRUISED' 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.' 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. Dorsey Corcoran was beaten within an inch of his life and then dumped off at the Home Hospital emergency room to die.'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?'įrom the Derry News, June 28th, 1958 (page 2): 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,'Ĭhief Richard Borton of the Derry Police called a news conference yesterday to announce that Richard P. When I asked him what happened, he said his father had "taken him up" for not eating his supper.' 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.
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