I got the message.'įrom the Derry News, June 24th, 1958 (page 1):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.'
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. 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. The boy died without recovering consciousness three days later.Įdward Corcoran, ten, was reported missing late Wednesday. 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. 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.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, 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 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 TEACHER SAYS EDWARD CORCORAN 'OFTEN BRUISED'įrom the Derry News, June 22nd, 1958 (page 1):įrom the Derry News, June 28th, 1958 (page 2):įrom the Derry News, June 25th, 1958 (page 2): 'DADDY HAD TO TAKE ME UP 'CAUSE I'M BAD,' I wish to God I didn't.'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. 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. Under Suspicion in Unsolved Disappearance
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