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Hanover cops: 2 injured when mistaken Civil War gun powder tube explodes

SOURCE: Hannover Daily Record (7-6-10)

A 66-year-old Livingston man was burned when a man asked him for a light and, instead of lighting a cigarette as he thought, he lit a paper cartridge filled with gun powder.

Police said Joseph Princiotta, 42, of Jersey City, obtained the cartridge from his friend, a Civil War re-enactor, who had the tube of gun powder with some of his re-enactment gear....
Source: 
Hannover Daily Record
Source URL: 
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20100706/UPDATES01/100706110/1005/NEWS01/Hanover+cops++2+injured+when+mistaken+Civil+War+gun+powder+tube+explodes
Date: 
7-6-10