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'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.'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.' '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. I wish to God I didn't.'įrom the Derry News, June 24th, 1958 (page 1): 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 TOT TOLD NURSERY TEACHER BEFORE BEATING DEATH From the Derry News, June 28th, 1958 (page 2):
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