SYMHC Classics: Redpath Murders

This 2022 episode covers the 1901 discovery of  Ada Maria Redpath and her son Jocelyn Clifford dead in their home. What exactly happened between the two of them is something we will likely never understand.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Happy Saturday. On June thirteenth, nineteen oh one, or one
hundred twenty five years ago today, two members of the
Redpath family of Montreal, Canada were killed in their home.
Our episode on this incident is Today's Saturday Classic. It
will quickly become obvious that this was one of our
Halloween episodes when it originally aired. It came out on

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October thirty first, twenty twenty two. Welcome to Stuff You
Missed in History Class, a production of iHeartRadio. Hello, and
welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Frye and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. Hey,

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we're doing some Canadian history, but it's also Halloween US,
so that means this one is a little bit on
the darker side. This one is a murder mystery sort of.
We know what happened and who was involved, but the
details of what led to everything happening the way it
did are a little fuzzy, and there are a lot

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of things that have been it seems like, systematically erased
from the historic record, so this one remains a mystery.
Heads up, we do want to let you know. This
episode involves a lot of discussion of a domestic violence
incident that involves guns. It also involves speculation in the

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press about the mental health of those involved. But this
is about what's often called the Redpath murders. On June thirteenth,
nineteen oh one, Ada Maria Redpath, who is fifty nine,
and her son Jocelyn Clifford, aged twenty six, were found
shot to death in their home, which was known as
the Redpath Mansion. We're going to talk about that in

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the behind the scenes, but more than one hundred and
twenty years later, what exactly happened to lead to those
deaths remains unknown. We know how they died, but why
is probably something we're never going to understand. So we
want to tell their story. But first we're going to
start by talking about Ada's life and the lives of
two of her children, who are closest to this strange tragedy.

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Ada Maria Mills was born in April twenty sixth, eighteen
forty two into a well off family. Her father, John
Easton Mills, was a well known and successful businessman. He
died when Ada was still a small child. He was,
I believe, the mayor of Montreal when he died. He'd
only held that post for I think less than a
year at the time, but that's kind of illustrative of

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how how well known and how prominent he was. Aida
married John James Redpath in Putney, England when she was
twenty five. Because she was from a well off family,
Aida and John had a marriage contract that reads kind
of like a modern prenup. It stated that she would
retain total control of her own wealth and assets. It's

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often referred to as wording, being as though she had
never married, so like literally completely siloed off a way
from her husband's money. She would later insist that her
daughter would have the same financial autonomy should she ever
choose to marry John James Redpath was himself from a
wealthy family. His father, John Redpath's senior, had moved to

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Canada from Scotland in the early nineteenth century and made
a fortune in construction, and he used that fortune to
purchase more than two hundred acres of land on Mount Royal,
just northwest of Montreal. He subdivided this land and resold
a lot of it, and his other wealthy families purchased
the land and built on it. This established a really

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wealthy neighborhood that came to be known as the Square Mile.
Over the next hundred years, the community of the Square
Mile neighborhood became more and more intertwined. A lot of
families became linked through various marriages amongst themselves. Uh yeah,
and all of those families also kind of made a
lot of business deals with each other, so their wealth

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kind of kept folding in on itself, and they, like said,
it became this little enclave. When John and Ada married,
John was working in the Redpath Family sugar refinery. He
had been a partner in the firm at that point
for several years. But he didn't stay in that industry
for a very long time after the marriage though, and
he actually left it to join the Victoria Rifles. That's

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a volunteer military regiment based in Montreal that had formed
in eighteen sixty two. And that seems like sort of
a good indication that John really did not have to
worry about income. Ada and John had five children over
the course of eight years, starting in eighteen sixty eight.
They were Amy, Peter, John, Reginald, Harold, and Jocelyn Clifford,

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who went by Clifford. Ada had been the one to
purchase the family home at ten sixty five Sherbrook Street
West in the square mile. She did that with her
family money in eighteen seventy. We'll talk about a house
a bit more on Friday. Yeah, there's a little bit
of confusion about which house was the house that I
ran into doing research looking for a picture to put

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on our social media for this, I started to look
at a lot of incredibly similar looking houses from right
on that same street. Yeah, this is also a problem
where there's more than one house called the Red Path
Mansion in this area. So at some point in her life, though,
Ada began having a variety of health problems. This is

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a little bit tricky because the specific nature of those
issues is hard to pin down. She was treated for
a lot of different things, both physical and psychological, including
trigeminal neuralgia, melancholy, and joint pain. Any readings that the
family wrote about her generally describe her in ways that
kind of characterize her as just being frail or fragile

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by the time she was in her forties. It also
seems like she was away from her home and her
children a lot for treatments for these various problems. An
undated letter that she sent the family from New York
while she was being fitted for braces for her joint problems.
She wrote, quote, my dear children. The doctors say that
it would be much better if I could remain until Monday.

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They want me to get quite accustomed to my new
brace before I leave, and find out all its faults,
so that they can send me home in good order
and comfortable, for they do not want me to have
to come back here very very soon. You see, there
is no one in Montreal who can alter the brace
and change it if it should hurt me, And it
is better that I should stay here until they have

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made it fit well. It has hurt me dreadfully, but
every day they make some little change, and tonight it
is more comfortable, although not quite right yet. And I
cannot walk it all yet without my crutches. It stretches
my legs so much that it makes it an inch
longer than the well leg. And doctors say that I
must let them put a thick three quarter inch sole

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on the boot of my well foot. If they do this,
poor Harold will think me more of a giant than ever.
But never mind. If only they will let me go home,
I will be willing to wear anything they please, And
bless you, my darlings, will be so glad to see
your mother that you won't stop to find fault with
her looks. God, bless you, my precious children, your loving mother.

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After AIDA's husband, John James Redpath died on June fourth,
eighteen eighty four, Ada relied increasingly on her children, particularly
her only daughter, who was also her oldest child. That
was Amy and her youngest son, Clifford. Amy was born
on May sixteenth, eighteen sixty eight, the year after Ada

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and John were married. The red Paths lived abroad during
their early marriage, so Amy was born in Europe and
then arrived in Canada when she was still a small child.
From an early age, Amy was deeply devoted to her family,
although we don't really know if this was just her
natural tendency or if it was because she knew the

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ex expectation was that she would need to help with
running the house and caring for her younger siblings. Was
really routinely expected of unmarried daughters at the time that
they would fill a role of that nature within their family,
and Amy had never expressed any obvious interest in marriage
or even mentioned any suitors in her writing. Growing up.

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This of course led to various speculations. Yeah, we'll talk
about some of those on Friday as well. Jocelyn Clifford
Redpath was born on November seventeenth, eighteen seventy six, and
although his sister, Amy was only eight, she was one
of his sponsor slash godparents at his baptism. Clifford, who

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also went by cliff, studied at McGill University and he
joined the law program there in eighteen ninety seven. Once
he started studying law, he also started apprenticing at the
law firm of Campbell, Meredith, Alan and Haig, and he
was on track for a law career when he graduated
in nineteen hundred and started to study for the bar exam.

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By the end of the eighteen hundreds, only Amy and
Clifford were still at home with Ada, and they took
care of her. Amy ran the house and Clifford managed
the finances with advice from his older brothers and uncles.
To be clear, while they were their mother's primary companions,
they weren't managing her care alone. There was also a
full house staff who Amy hired and managed, including a nurse,

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but they were put in the position of being the
heads of the household. Ada would travel to upstate New
York in the summers to spend time in specialty clinics
or health resorts, and Clifford usually traveled with her. On
one occasion in eighteen ninety eight, when Ada was traveling
with her older son Peter instead of Clifford, she was
so clingy with Amy at the train station she was

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set to leave that Amy decided she had to go
with their mother as well, even though she did not
have any luggage or travel gear with her her. Yeah,
she wrote in a letter to I believe it was
a cousin about like, I'm going to Saratoga Springs and
I don't even have gloves. She just was like, I
have nothing. Amy and Clifford were also very close, and

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they spent a lot of time together even when it
was not necessitated by their household duties or responsibilities. So
they would attend social gatherings and church together. They often
took long walks together, and Amy helped cliff with his
law study. She would even rewrite the notes that he
had taken during lectures so that they would be easier
for him to study when he was studying for the bar. Basically,

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like she was writing study guides for him. Clifford was
also very very close with their mother. In a letter
to Clifford in eighteen ninety eight, Ada's attachment to her
youngest son is a parent. She wrote, quote, dearest, Oh,
how I miss you. I have come so to depend
on you that I am lost without you. Nothing seems
worthwhile without you, your most loving old mother. Though she

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was still only in her late fifties by nineteen oh
one when the shooting took place, Ada's health had declined
to the point that she spent her time almost exclusively
in her bedroom, and she had stopped attending even family events.
Cliff on the other hand, seemed to have a life
that was just on the precipice of real success. In
early June of nineteen oh one, there were discussions at

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the law firm where he'd apprenticed about making him a
partner once he passed the bar. That never happened. We
are going to talk about how the tragedy in the
Red Path Home unfolded, but first we will pause for
a sponsor break. So we mentioned at the top of

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the episode that Ada and Clifford were quote found dead,
and that is often how it's reported, But to me,
that wording tends to convey this sense of distance, like
the house had been empty except for them, or that
they had been dead for some period of time before
being found, or that there could be questions about if
someone else had been in the house. None of that
was the case. It was absolutely not. They had been

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discovered immediately because there were plenty of other people in
the house when the shots were fired. Those people heard
the shots and they went to investigate right away. That
sort of hazy and confusing sense of them being discovered
later started immediately in the press. The Calgary Harold ran
a brief notice about the deaths that read, in part quote,

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Missus John Jay Redpath of Sherbrooke Street, a widow lady
and her son twenty five were found dying in their
house and Missus Redpath's room late in the night from
bullet wounds in the heads. The son is in the
hospital unable to make a statement. The mother died within
an hour without making a statement. All of this actually

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happened around six pm, So the late in the night
statement it's not really correct. No, there's a lot of incorruption,
as we'll discuss. As we said, there were other people home.
The oldest of the Red path sons, Peter, was there.
He heard the gunfire and he ran right to the sound,

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which was, as we've said, in his mother's room. There
were also members of the house staff in the home
who also went to the room. Ada did die on
the scene. Some reports say she died instantly, others make
it sound like she may have died a few minutes
after being found. Clifford was still alive, although unconscious, and
he was reportedly taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital. He

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died that night at eleven or eleven fifteen, or maybe
eleven fifty, maybe shortly after midnight, depending on what account
you read. Incidentally, he was never registered in hospital records
as having been admitted to the Royal Victoria or to
any other hospital. This is one of just a lot
of small inconsistencies and gaps and the information about the

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shooting that have kept people scratching their heads for more
than a century. As soon as this tragedy hit the news,
there were rumors about what had really happened in the
Red Path home, and there were a lot of factors
that fueled the spread of those rumors. For one, the
red Paths were very, very wealthy. They were from a
largely insular community of similarly wealthy families, so people naturally

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had a tendency to want to speculate. But for another
the sheer shock of a tragedy like this just led
people to speculate about it. But there were really three
very significant contributing factors. One, there was little investigation into
the shootings. Two, the family was largely unwilling to discuss

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the matter publicly. Now, on the one hand, this is
totally understandable, who would want to talk about the sudden
murder suicide of two family members while grieving and likely
in shock. But because no one from the house was
saying very much, their quiet started to be framed possibly
covering something up. In Three, the details kept changing from

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report to report. One idea was that Ada had a
mental break that was brought on by ongoing insomnia and
that somehow led to the shooting. This is the narrative
that came up in news reports immediately after the tragedy.
The Sherbrooke Daily Record of Montreal printed the following on
June fourteenth, quote, A very sad affair occurred last evening.

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For some months Missus JJ Redpath had been a confirmed invalid,
one of the characteristics of her malady being prolonged insomnia.
About six o'clock, the household heard an explosion, and, hurrying
to her room, found both Missus Redpath and her son,
mister Clifford Redpath, seriously wounded by revolver shot. Missus Redpath

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died in a short time. Her son was removed in
an unconscious condition to the Royal Victoria Hospital, where he
expired about midnight. Neither could give any account of what
had happened. A write up in the Weekly News Advertiser
of Vancouver, British Columbia offered similar speculation, offering quote no
details of the tragedy are known. Missus Redpath had been

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ill for some time, suffering from insomnia. The surmise is
that while temporarily mentally deranged, Missus Redpath attempted to end
her life, and in attempting to prevent her, her son
was shot. The unfortunate lady then completed her undertaking. But
the Ottawa Citizen had a different take. Yes, Ada was

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having issues with mental health because of insomnia, but she
wasn't dangerous because of it. Their ride up states quote
who was responsible for the tragedy is yet a mystery.
For some years. Missus Redpath has suffered greatly from insomnia,
to such an extent that her mind was affected. Doctor
Roddick had been in constant attendance upon her, but it

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was not imagined that her condition was at all likely
to result in violence to herself or the members of
her family. Another account from the Quebec Daily Mercury seems
to state as fact the idea that Clifford murdered his
mother and then himself in a drunken rage. Quote it
has transpired in connection with the Redpath tragedy that Clifford

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Redpaths shot his mother and then put two bullets in
his own head. They had been quarreling for some time,
and young Redpath is said to have been under the
influence of liquor at the time of the tragedy. The
young man was a law student. The actual findings of
the coroner's inquest were different from all of these theories,
and it happened very quickly, as in the day after

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the shooting is when the inquest was held, and the
coroner's jury was made up of members of wealthy families
from the small square mile community. There were John Dunns, Junior, H. Browning, Lansing,
Lewis ECB. Fanshawe, George Hyde, Bartlett, McLennan, Francis mc lennon,
John Walker, W. Maurice, John Savage, W. W. Watson, Charles

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Esdley and Herbert Wallace. The Halifax Morning Harold reported quote
investigation by the coroner's jury today put a new light
on the Redpath tragedy of yesterday. The evidence showed that
Missus Redpath had been shot twice, once in the back
of the head and then a second time in the
right shoulder while the bullet had entered Young Redpass head

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to the right of the left temple. The jury brought
in a verdict that the young man had killed his
mother in a fit of temporary insanity brought on by
an epileptic fit, and then taken his own life. The
first story given out by the family that the shooting
had probably been done by the mother was due to
the fact that the young man was still alive. I

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feel like we should just note that a lot of
the language being used to discuss things like epilepsy and
mental illness completely outdated, very outdated and offensive by today's day,
so like, just don't go repeating it in casual conversation. Uh.
This also brings into focus one detail that changed repeatedly

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about all this. Although initial accounts for multiple sources stated
that there were two shots, there was one account in
a paper that Clifford had shot himself twice, and then
this account which said that he had shot his mother twice.
That would be three shots total. So that's just another
aspect of all this that was inconsistent. Now, subsequent testimonies

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and we're going to get to those in a moment,
do support that three shots number. It seems like some
papers may have run on the assumption that it was
just two in their haste to get the news to print.
As we said, we're reading these news reports that are
happening like day of But that is also the kind
of detail that you might think would surely show up
in a police report. Of course it would, Hey, there

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isn't one because there was no police investigation. A coroner's
jury was assembled there at the home, but there was
never a police presence. They were never called. Now how
the coroner ended up there but the police didn't is
a little unclear, Although it is most likely that someone
from the house staff or the family called the coroner

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Ed McMahon through some sort of personal connection. The Weekly
News Advertiser of Montreal even noted in an article about
the shooting quote, the family refuse any information and the
police only heard of the matter by accident. The family
have issued a statement, but from it nothing can be
learned of the details of the tragedy beyond the fact

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that two people are dead. We'll get into the details
of those witness testimonies to try to unravel this thing
a bit after we first pause to hear from the
sponsors that keep the show going. There were several witness

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statements that were given and heard by the coroner's jury.
Those statements were given by Peter Redpath eight, his son
and Clifford's older brother, Thomas George Roddick, the family doctor
Hugh Patton, and Rollo Campbell, both of whom were doctors,
Rose Shallow, who worked for the Red Path Sometimes her
name is written as Rosa, but it appears to have

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actually been Rose, and Charles James Fleet, who also worked
in the home. According to the coroner's jury report, Peter
testified to the details that we've already mentioned. According to
peter Redpath. Here's what happened. Quote yesterday evening, I saw
my brother, the deceased, arriving home at around six o'clock.
He seemed ill and was tired, working hard to prepare

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for his bar exams. He went up to the room
of my mother, Ada Maria Mills, aged sixty two, and
a few seconds later I heard a shot from a firearm,
followed by two others. I ran up and broke down
the door. I saw my mother lying on the floor,
and several feet from her, my brother also lying in
a pool of blood, a revolver a foot away from

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him near his hand. My brother had been very nervous
for some time. Incidentally, he got his mother's adron. She
was fifty nine. So doctor Roddick also testified that he
was called to confirm the death. Rodick's testimony really is
the one that sets up the idea that, based on
the position of the bodies, he believed that Cliff shot

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his mother and then himself. Roddick is also the one
that introduced the information that Cliff was epileptic, and this
really establishes the way things shook out in the jury investigation.
But there is a little snag here. Rodick had been
in Montreal on the day of the shooting, which is,
you know, not where square Mile is. It's a little

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outside the city, and by some accounts, he didn't actually
get to the Square Mile neighborhood until the following day.
When doctor Patten gave his statement. He said that Ada
had been shot in the back of the head and
that Clifford was shot through the left temple. Doctor Campbell
backed up Patton's account and added that he thought he

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saw foam in Clifford's mouth, suggesting that as evidence that
some kind of epileptic seizure was the cause of Clifford's behavior.
Rose Shallow stated that she had hurched the shots and
followed Peter Redpath up the stairs to Ada's room, and
that she had seen the two bodies on the floor
a few feet apart, as well as two revolvers near Clifford.

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Charles James Fleet stated that doctor Campbell had given him
the two revolvers from the scene to secure, which he
produced for the jury to show that one had been
discharged twice and the other had been discharged once in
the matter of the death of Ada Redpath. The jury's
statement read quote we the undersigned jurors, having heard the evidence,

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declare that Aida Maria Mills died at Montreal on the
thirteenth day of June nineteen hundred and one from a
gunshot wound apparently inflicted by Clifford Joscelyt Path, while unconscious
of what he was doing and temporarily insane owing to
an epileptic attack from which he was suffering at the time.

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There is actually a very long quote from Ada redpast
son Harold, which was released in a lot of papers
along with the news of the coroner's jury's findings. In it,
Harold stated that, quote, I left Clifford about two o'clock
yesterday in good spirits, though somewhat unwell. In fact, Clifford
had been indisposed for some time owing to hard work

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preparing for his day examinations. No one knows just how
the affair occurred. Clifford was particularly fond of his mother.
The statement from Harold Redpath goes on to say that
the older brother believed that the only explanation that made
any sense was that Clifford had some sort of quote,
moment of temporary aberration and that led to the shooting.

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The brothers had, according to Harold been planning a trip
to Quebec so that Clifford could get in some quiet
time and continue his studying. As we said, this statement
is long. It's paragraphs long, and even though it's framed
in the write up as though it was part of
a conversation that Harold had with a reporter, it really
reads like a press release. Harold may have been exactly

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as well spoken as the lengthy quote makes him seem,
but his answer may also have been edited by the
paper to take out things like repetition or to improve clarity.
This also makes it seem kind of like this was
the family's one public statement that they were going to
make on the matter. Yeah, if you've ever read somebody's

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interview and read a press statement, they're not the same
in tone, and this one definitely, like I said, it
reads like a press statement. There are some pieces of
information that are held up as evidence that Clifford Redpath
was not in any way suicidal. One of these is
a check which he wrote to the Bar of Montreal

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just two days before the shooting to pay for his
examination fee. As we mentioned earlier, he was also in
discussion with his bosses at the law firm where he
was apprenticing about becoming a partner just days before this
all happened. People that hold this theory that Clifford was
not suicidal point out that conversely, his sister Amy's descriptions

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of their mother Ada in the months leading up to
the deaths describe her as being in a very depressed
state where she considered life quote a burden. The funeral
for Ada and Clifford was held at Saint John the
Evangelist Church the day after the coroner's jury came to
their conclusion regarding the shooting, was less than forty eight

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hours after it happened. This was unusual because they were
both given a high Anglican funeral, even though suicide and
homicide would have both been disqualifiers for such a service
for Clifford. A paper written by researchers from McGill University
about the family and the deaths for the Material Culture
Review makes the case that Amy Redpath was influential enough

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in the Square Mile community she was able to get
Clifford the formal funeral, despite it really being contrary to
church policy. Both Ada and Clifford were interred at Mount
Royal Cemetery, Yeah It's also pointed out often that in
municipal records there are no suicides listed as having occurred
that year, So whether or not Amy was influential enough

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to have made sure those were not on the record,
we don't know. But Amy really controlled the flow of
information or black thereof about the shooting and prevented anything
else from spreading to the public. She seems to have
destroyed any discussion of the matter that may have passed
among family members in letters, and wrote to her sister

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in law on August twenty fourth, so just a little
over two months after this tragedy quote I spent yesterday
sorting and tearing up old letters, rather a mournful business
of things. That really stands out as odd in the
weeks and years following the murder suicide was the way
in which Cliff was discussed within the red Path family.

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In the few surviving letters, Every note about this tragedy
speaks of what an amazing young man he was, and
how adored he was, What a loss it is that
he's gone. But the same really cannot be said for Ada.
They don't say much of her. We don't know, of course,
if this is a case where Clifford's youth played a
role in shaping the way that people in the family

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grieved for him, or if there were any kind of
missives that expressed anger about his actions or spoke more
mournfully about the family matriarch that we just don't have.
AIDA's a state valued at one hundred and seventy nine
thousand and eighty six dollars and six cents, was distributed
among her heirs. Amy chose to stay in the house

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where her brother and her mother died, although the rest
of the family mostly left the Montreal area in the
decade that followed the tragedy. She also married doctor Thomas Roddick,
who had been the attending physician in Missus Redpath and
a key witness in the Corner's inquest. Three years after
the shooting, one of the Redpath cousins, Lily Dougal, wrote
a novel titled The Summit House Mystery, which borrowed details

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from this murder suicide at the Redpath home in nineteen
oh one. Yeah, it also kind of combined some details
that seem like they came from the Lizzie Bordon story,
so like it's not something you can point to you
and go haha, this is there clues it was definitely
fictionalized stuff. McGill University still has the Redpath Library and
the Red Path Museum. Their family donated a lot of

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money to the university over the years. The library's function
has changed. It's now used as a hall for large
events like school ceremonies. But the Red Path Museum, which
was designed by architects Hutchinson and Steel in eighteen eighty
two and has been called the first purpose built museum
in Canada, is still a natural sciences museum. The Redpath

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Mansion is not a place you can visit, though it
no longer exists. The home was demolished in nineteen fifty six.
Amy had died two years prior, and the property was
purchased by a development company. We will, of course, never
know what exactly happened in Ada's bedroom on June thirteenth,
nineteen oh one. We know that both of those people

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died by gunshot, but because of how the whole incident
was handled, it can be difficult to trust even the
official record on the matter of who shot who, and
we have no idea what may have transpired between Ada
and Cliff to catalyze their tragic deaths. If there was
any insight into that, it seems that Amy Redpath probably

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destroyed it. One thing we haven't talked about regarding the
Redpath family and Amy in particular, is that she was
a writer. She wrote a number of closet dramas. Those
are plays that were written to be performed either privately
or not at all, and she also wrote poetry. She
wrote two poems about her brother cliff after he died.
We don't know of any that she wrote for her mother.

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One of her poems to Clifford, which is titled perfect
in Thy Promise, clearly shows her working through her grief
in an effort to find peace in the loss of
her brother. So that seemed like a good place to
end this one. Perfect in Thy Promise as the bud unfolding,
perfect in thyself as rose, fresh blown, ever gracious, all

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that's pure and good, upholding perfect spirit. Hast thou really flown?
Must I dwell alone? The many dismal morrows, far from
blissful hope together spanned hope of service through assuaging dearth
and sorrows, hope of golden deeds together planned no the
heavy morning weeds I tear as under, struggle from the

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clouds that blacken round, close my ears to their unholy
Woesome thunder rise anew to life from grief, unbound, perfect spirit.
Now I know that thou art near me in thy
prescient I rest content, trusting in my love to guard
and help and steer me till I too have reached

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life's high ascent. Not the most halloween ee of Halloween episodes,
but you know, a mystery murderer seemed like the right
fit for today. Thanks so much for joining us on
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