 When not serving as a hangman, Radclive worked as a steward under the alias Thomas Rately at the Sunnyside Boating Club, a rowing club in Parkdale, Toronto.However, when his identity was accidentally disclosed by an inspector from the Northwest Mounted Police,

Following an interview with Radclive, Hector Willoughby Charlesworth recorded in his notebook, the "Candid chronicles", why Radclive became a hangman