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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18682, 4 May 1926, Page 10

A young couple were found dead on the floor of the session house of Cambnslang Parish Church, near Glasgow. The victims, Peter Stevenson McNee (36), a cashier and his wife aged 33, were prominent members of the congre* gation. Mr McNee had charge of the distribution among the members of the Church of Scotland monthly magazines, and, accompanied by his wife, had gone to the church to arrange the magazines in the pews. The beadle, Mr John Anderson, found the couple dead on the floor. He ran to the manse and informed the minister and the police, and two local doctors were summoned. Mrs McNee, apparently, had been violently sick, while her husband was lying on his face, with his feet under a table, at which, it is supposed, he had been sitting. Nothing was found that would suggest the selfadministration of poison. The church is lit by electricity, and as far as is known there are no gas mains near. A curious feature, however, is that some of the police officers in the session-room felt themselves becoming faint and had to retire to the fresh air. A postmortem examination established that death was due to poisonous fumes from a furnace used for heating the building.