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  Nickname	May
  Birth	Abt 1921	NY
  Gender	Female
  Census	1930	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1]
  	She was living with her parents.
  Misc	16 May 1937	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [2]
  	Discovered the body of murdered child, Helen Tierney
  Name	May Savage
  Died	Y  [3]
  Person ID	I12445	Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets
  Last Modified	08 Nov 2009
  Father	Antonio Savage, ^,   b. Abt 1877, Poland (Russia) ,   d. Bef 21 Nov 1930
  Mother	Mary [Savage], ^,   b. Abt 1877, Poland (Russia) ,   d. Likely or certainly yes (based on other fact dates), date unknown
  Married	Abt 1901	Poland
  Family ID	F4549	Group Sheet

• Documents		Helen Tiernan Murder .. it was a lovely spring day. The weather was fair and in the upper fifties on Sunday, May 16, 1937 as sixteen year-old May Savage of Brookhaven Hamlet was walking through the woods near her home. But her pleasant afternoon was shattered when she discovered the body of a young girl whose throat had been cut and whose body burned. Thus began an episode that brought to Brookhaven Hamlet notoriety that was front page headlines in newspapers across the country.

• Sources

  [S129] 1930 Census, Census Place: Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York; Roll 1650; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 39; Image: 416.0.. [S708] BrookhavenSouthHaven.org, http://brookhavensouthhaven.org/history/HelenTiernanMurder/HelenTiernanMurder.htm. [S53] Personal Knowledge: John Deitz, That she had died was communicated by Ben Savage, her brother..