But as it turned out, Samuel O’Reilly had much more to offer this world than common criminality. He was now in his mid-twenties, and it seemed that prison would become his way of life. O’Reilly received his ride and then received five years in state prison. Suspicion was expressed that the fugitive turned himself in to authorities so he could obtain a free ride back to Connecticut. The Octoissue of the Detroit Free Press tells how O’Reilly, who was having “no luck” in Detroit, turned himself in to a beat officer whom he had befriended. Evidently, he grew sick of life on the run. The wanted man knocked around Detroit without much of a purpose other than eluding authorities.
In the wake of this family outing, O’Reilly, knowing that there were warrants for his arrest, skipped town and headed for Detroit.
In April 1877, O’Reilly – along with his mother, father, and two of his four siblings – robbed a store. For whatever reason, it doesn’t seem that he ever suffered any consequences for his desertion, but there would be consequences for other acts. Soon following his release, O’Reilly joined the Marine Corps, which he deserted after four months. For this incident, he served two years of hard labor in the state penitentiary.
According to Carmen Nyssen’s biographical essay on the website, O’Reilly and two other Irish Americans were busted for burglary of a general store in 1873. At an early age, he – like so many other Waterbury residents of that era – began working in the brass industry (Waterbury is nicknamed “The Brass City”).Īs a young adult, he sought to make money in other ways. Both his parents were Irish immigrants, and he was the oldest of five children. His rambunctious, enigmatic life began in May 1854 in Waterbury, Connecticut. And chances are they have no idea who invented the electric tattoo machine: Samuel O’Reilly.
The vast lot of them got inked by way of an electric tattoo machine. More than 45 million Americans have at least one tattoo.
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