It looks as if the poor man was blown up by a gun exploding that he had been hired to set off at a regatta at Fowey.
If I have the right report, he was a labouring man, above 60, with a family "mostly grown up and earning their own living"
And if he was Jane's step-father, was he also the father of her children???
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