'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. The boy died without recovering consciousness three days later.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?'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. '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.'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. '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. Under Suspicion in Unsolved Disappearance The court order followed a joint request from the County Attorney and the County Medical Examiner. 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. TOT TOLD NURSERY TEACHER BEFORE BEATING DEATH 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. When I asked him what happened, he said his father had "taken him up" for not eating his supper.'įrom the Derry News, June 28th, 1958 (page 2): 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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