Have been searching without success to confirm:
1. Charles Jerred was briefly blinded by an accident using cyanide for case coloring at Hunter Arms. The Fulton guns were colored with cyanide rather than bone charcoal. Bro. Tom probably knows.
2. An English gunmaker was found dead in the basement of his shop, presumable from the fulminate of mercury he was using to make percussion caps or primers. William Eley?
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.pyrotechnics/2005-12/msg00095.html

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