School of Humans on American filth, we have found time and time again that if someone cheats, they're probably gonna do it again.

I couldn't be more true for our filthy subject of today, Arthur Brown.

Arthur was very.

Briefly a US Senator in the eighteen nineties, and he was also a Grade A pile of crap who cheated, cheated, cheated, and cheated some more until he got shot.

As the youths say, oh no, the consequences of my actions.

Now, I don't really.

Understand the allure of this man.

He kind of looks like slender man with sunken eyes, pointy years in a receding hairline.

So he probably used the power of manipulation and promising more than he intended to offer to seduce these women.

And who knows what he was working with down below.

Maybe he had big, throbbing tender hands that.

Women could not resist.

I'll post some photos of him on Instagram at American Felt Pod so that you can make the assessment.

Why did people think this guy was odd?

So let's dive in to another classic American filt topic, A cheating man crazy.

There's so many of them.

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This is American Felt and I'm Gabby Watts.

Every week I tell you a filthy story from American history.

This week's episode how to stop a Senator from cheating shoot him.

In the eighteen seventies, Arthur Brown was a successful lawyer living in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

He was married to a woman named Lydia Koon had one daughter, Alice.

But if you can believe it, having a booming career and a cute little family wasn't enough for mister Arthur Brown.

Nay, he had greater ambitions.

His first great ambition was to hold political office.

He ran for Prosecuting Attorney of Kalamazoo several times, but.

Oh no, he never won.

But no worries.

He had an even greater ambition than political office.

He had a mission to tap a lot of ass.

Yeah, he was living in Michigan, but he was living the mission to cheat on my wife again an exquisite pun by me.

One woman Arthur was cheating on his wife with was Isabel Cameron.

Isabel was not just a hot young lady.

She was also the daughter of a member of the Michigan State Senate.

Ooh, political connections.

But sometime in the late eighteen seventies, Arthur's wife, Lydia, discovered the affair and she had enough.

She was like, I divorce ye vile adulterer, get the hents from my life.

She didn't say like that, but if it was in Shakespeare's time, maybe, And honestly, it's pretty good for her to get out of that marriage because it allowed her to lead a much better life.

After the divorce, she and her daughter moved to Ohio, and Lydia's oh bit said.

She became a pioneering kindergarten teaching and Alice went on to be a reporter girl bosses all around.

After that, Arthur decided that Michigan wasn't the place for him anymore.

He was divorced, and also he never won an election for political office.

So he decided, instead of being a medium fish and a medium pond, he'd go swim with some smaller fishes so that his scales could really shine.

So what did he do to fulfill his political dreams?

He moved to Utah.

He said, you TAUGHTI was done with politics.

You're wrong, another exquisite pun.

When he arrived, Utah wasn't a state yet, and he was hoping to be appointed as the US District Attorney for the territory.

But oh no, that also didn't happen.

In fact, Arthur didn't become a politician until almost two decades later, when Utah got its statehood in eighteen ninety six.

This time he ran for senator and he actually won.

He became one of the first two senators from Utah.

Finally his political career could begin, and he served as senator for a whole year.

Pepepeop peper just a year.

Yes, he drew the short term and he only served from January twenty two, eighteen ninety six, until March third, eighteen ninety seven.

And after that, his party, the Republicans, did not want to put him on the ticket for reelection.

And why was that, Well, a lot of Republicans didn't like him.

He really hated the free silver movement, which a lot of people in the Western States loved.

These people wanted silver in addition to gold to back US currency.

I know what that means.

I understand money.

And also I think people didn't like him because he seemed really unpleasant to work with.

The New York Times wrote this about him, quote, he had no consideration for anything that stands in his way.

He is an.

Intense, bitter partisan with no sympathy for anyone who does not share his view on general politics or on silver.

Always pugnacious, he would be willing to take up any gauntlet.

So yeah, the Republicans didn't want him back because he didn't like silver and he was an uncompromising bitch.

And he was also an uncompromising bitch when it came to his adulteress in the farious ways.

After his divorce from Lydia in the eighteen seventies, that sidechick of his, Isabel Cameron, actually followed.

Him to Utah.

Maybe in her mind she.

Was like, Wow, this man cheated on his wife just for me.

He must be the one I mean.

Also, he was pretty rich, so she and Arthur got married.

They had one son named Max.

That name, of course, is short for my dad is a maximum cheater.

And like his last marriage, it didn't take Arthur long to find some other women to get down and dirty with.

That's what Isabel forgot as the side chick.

Once the side chick becomes the main course, your dog husband will find some other sides to get his gravy on.

That was a lot of mixed metaphors.

But you American filth listeners are very intelligent and can parsel all the confusing things that I say that I myself don't necessarily understand.

But Isabelle was a smarty pants and she suspected that Arthur was cheating on her, so she hired a private investigator and lo and behold, the detective discovered Arthur in the den of a adultery.

Specifically, he was in a boarding house with a woman named Anne Madison Bradley.

Annie Bradley was thirty years younger than Arthur Brown, and when their affair began in the late eighteen nineties, she was in her late twenties and he was in his late fifties.

Iw they met through politics.

Annie was well connected in the political and cultural world of Utah.

She was married to a railroad worker named Clarence and they had two kids by Their relationship didn't seem great, and it got even worse when Arthur Brown started aggressively hitting on Annie in the late eighteen nineties.

At first, Annie was like, yuck, why is this old man talking to me about how he's so unhappy.

In his marriage?

And then Arthur's advances escalated this is what Annie said about it.

Later.

He was a very strange man.

Finally he began coming to my house at very unseemly hours, and I told him it must stop, but he answered, Darling, we will go through life together.

I want you to have a son.

Somehow, to Annie, Arthur went from being strange to them becoming intimate.

I guess if you harass women enough, you can get what you want if you're an uncompromising bitch.

And indeed, in February nineteen hundred, Annie had another kid who she said was the son of Arthur.

She even named him Arthur Brown Bradley to make her point.

Annie didn't hide her affair from her husband, poor Clarence.

After he discovered that the kid wasn't his, he turned to the drink and stopped working at the railroad, which you're supposed to be doing all the livelong day.

But I guess not.

He moved to Nevada and developed a gambling addiction, and then embezzled from his old company, was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison.

Damn, people take breakups pretty friggin' art.

Arthur was also being pretty cavalier about the whole affair.

He and Annie had been traveling around the country together.

They spent a couple months in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Everyone knows that's the destination for love.

They also went to DC together with his daughter from his first marriage, and at that time Annie claimed that Arthur had given her an engagement ring and was promising to get a divorce from his wife, Isabelle.

Isabelle's private investigator found the couple in nineteen oh two when Arthur and Annie were back in Salt Lake City and Isabelle was bereft.

How could her husband, who cheated on his first one with her cheat again?

Men have patterns?

What?

And then she was extra bereft.

Because Arthur filed for divorce.

And you might think that if you caught your husband cheating, divorce that makes sense, But that wasn't the case for Isabelle.

Divorce is embarrassing, and her husband was rich from his years of law practicing.

She didn't want to lose that cash money.

But the main reason isabel didn't want a divorce was because she was about to travel to Europe and be presented at court in London.

And at court, one cannot be presented if you're divorced.

Honestly, I get it.

I would say with the man too, that sounds pretty fun.

I don't know if the queen or the king back then had corgies like Queen Elizabeth, but there's probably a nice dog that you could pet at court, or like a fancy cat, and you probably got really good or dervs, and you know, little glasses of champagne.

So it makes sense get divorced after you're presented at court.

Everyone knows that.

So to retaliate against the divorce, Isabelle and the investigator reported Arthur and Annie's adultery.

To police, and both of them were arrested.

Isabel was like, I will drop the charges if you don't divorce me, Arthur.

Meanwhile, Annie's friends were trying to convince her to stop her affair with Arthur, but he pleaded with her not to leave him.

She said, he fell on his knees before me and begged me not to desert him.

Slap his ass, that's what I think.

Slap him right across the face, punch him in the nose, kick him in the butt.

This guy fucking sucks.

But you know, Arthur was too.

Time and again he said that to Annie but then he told isabel that he would stop seeing her.

He even asked one of his lawyer friends to follow him around to make sure he wouldn't see her.

He's like, I'm so weak, hold me back from cheating on my wife and ruining my life and family.

And then after that, Isabelle and Arthur told Annie they'd give her money and property if she left them alone, and Annie was like, what the hell Arthur just made all these promises to me.

We're in love.

I just want him.

I don't care about your money or your property, which I'm like, girl, get your money and your property.

What are you doing?

It's such a mess.

And then it got even messier.

Arthur was like to avoid seeing his mistress Annie.

He was like, I'm gonna leave Salt Lake City and go to Idaho.

She can't get me there, And his lawyer friend was like, great, I'll come with you.

I'll be there in a few days.

But you go ahead to escape this wench.

But if you can believe it, the lawyer friend and isabel were yet again deceived because this was a plot.

Because once he was out of town, Arthur.

Did meet up with Annie, Isabelle, and the lawyer friend discovered the plan and rushed to Idaho, probably the fastest anyone's ever gone to Idaho, because why would you go there?

And they discovered Annie and Arthur in a hotel room together.

This led to some Real Housewives level drama.

The lawyer friend wrote about the showdown between Annie and Isabel.

He said, Missus Annie Bradley came up the stairs and Missus Isabel Brown said, how do you do, Missus Bradley.

I have wanted to talk to you.

Missus Bradley sort of cowed over to the wall, and Missus Brown walked towards her and grabbed her by the throat and threw her down and intended to kill her.

I separated them.

They got up and commenced talking in very low tones of voicing.

Again when Missus Brown grabbed her again, I separated them and Missus Brown said.

Let me alone.

I will kill her, and I says not when I am here.

Then Missus Bradley called out and says, Arthur, they are killing your dolly.

Open the door.

They were about six or eight feet from the door at the time.

There was no response from the Senator's room.

Then they commenced talking again.

The two women the conversation I don't remember.

I went and sat down and looked on.

Finally, missus Brown rapped on the door of Room eleven and said, Arthur opened the door, or I will mash it in.

And the door opened and the two women went in, and then Arthur came and called me and said, come in.

I don't want to be left alone here with them.

Arthur Brown sure is an uncompromising bitch, but he's also a huge pussy.

Like what the hell is this?

Like your wife and the mistress are fighting each other, your wife wants to kill your mistress, and you're just like, I don't want to have anything to do with it.

It's on my fault.

After this encounter in Idaho, Arthur gave Annie a gun to protect her from his wife.

But remember guys Chekhov's gun.

We're bringing up a gun because maybe there's gonna be a gun.

Later in the story, back in Salt Lake City, Arthur and Annie's adultery trial was still on, and then the lead up to it, there's a lot of accusations and tomfoolery.

Arthur told Annie that her son wasn't his, and then he even told his wife Isabelle that their son Max wasn't his either.

Basically, he was just calling these women sluts, even though he was the real slut the whole time.

At the trial, Annie refused to plead not guilty unless Arthur said her son was his, but he refused again.

But then he told he would for sure marry her after the trial and then they could go live in Poland.

Together for some reason.

But that wasn't satisfactory, so Annie pled guilty, Arthur pled not guilty and was acquitted, and Annie, even though she lost, she was never sentenced and Arthur did not get divorced.

He bamboozled Annie once again.

Instead, Arthur dumped Annie and reconciled with his wife, or did he, because then in November nineteen oh three, a few months after the trial, Annie had another child, allegedly fathered by Arthur.

This man he cannot be stopped.

But finally a couple years later there was a resolution because in nineteen oh five, Isabelle died of cancer and he probably gave it Dirk because he's such a bitch.

If you have a bitch as husband, that's how you get cancer.

Divorce them, and really you're probably like, wow, finally the end to this saga, Arthur Brown was out totally available and free.

To marry Annie Bradley.

But once again, Arthur's not going to make this easy and he already had other plans be right back after these soothing advertisements.

I'm kind of talking more like a bitch today, but I think what it is is, I got triple vaxed yesterday.

I had my COVID vaccine.

I had my blue shot and whooping cough, which you know, I don't want to get whooped.

So I got that because my sister's having a wee little babe, and so I was like, I have to be vaccine against these things so that I don't ruin the baby, you know.

But the only reason I would be I'm not anti vax I'm very pro vaccined, but whenever I get vaccinate, I feel like absolute ass.

So in this moment of recording is the one moment in many hours in which I felt okay.

And now I'm just mad at this man, Arthur Brown, like he sucks so much, and again he does.

He's not hot.

He was like kind of rich, not the rageus guy, but he was pretty rich.

Ugh, Like people say, dating is hard now.

Early twentieth century seems even more difficult.

After Arthur Brown's wife Isabel died, you'd think he'd finally marry his mistress, Annie Bradley, the mistress he seemed to be unable to keep his hands off of, with whom he ruined his family and reputation.

You'd think if he was willing to risk that much for someone, you'd really want them.

And indeed, the same night that his wife Isabel died, he went to talk to Annie and was like, hey, girl, it's time for you to get your divorce from your husband, because we can get married now because my obnoxious, nagging wife is about to die, and we.

Can write all this wrong that we've done.

Over the past few years.

Annie was probably fricking delighted, and she did as she was told.

She divorced her husband Clarence, and made herself.

Ready for marriage number two.

But then Arthur started acting super sus Annie was like, hey, I got my divorce, I'm ready to wed.

But then Arthur was like, oh, why the rush.

We should have a proper courtship, and Annie was like, we have two kids together, I think we are well past the time of courtship.

Finally, Annie was able to get Arthur to commit to a wedding day in June nineteen oh six.

Arthur was being really apologetic about it.

He was like, Ugh, if I don't carry out my promise to marry you in June, I call upon God to avenge it.

He's like, I'm for sure going to keep that date, and if I don't keep that date, wrath for me.

I'll be such a bad guy.

But I'm gonna do it.

But despite his stupid promise, on the day of the wedding, he didn't show up.

He called Annie being like, I'm a little sick, so he can't come to my own wedding.

Sickness.

Terrible excuse, terrible excuse.

Annie tried to get him to marry her again in August of that year, but he was like, I'm busy, can't get married now, but later for sure.

And this just spelled out trouble for Annie.

Because Annie had divorced her husband, Clarence, and now she's being jilted by Arthur.

She didn't have these men in her life, so she didn't have any money coming in.

She ended up having to rent out her house and live in a hotel, and at this point she had four kids, two by Clarence two by Arthur.

She was desperate.

She even squatted in Arthur's house while he wasn't there, and when he discovered her, he kicked her out.

He's like, this is my house.

You can't live here with my two children.

Annie was on the precipice of destitution.

It was so bad that she was about to have to get a job.

A job.

She's a proper woman.

She can't have a job.

That's what young women do, not her.

She's in her thirties now, and as she considered her options, she was like, even if I want a job, I still need Arthur's help to get one.

So she sent him a note.

She was like, hey, Arthur, will you please give.

Me some money so I can buy some goods so I can open a shop.

If you won't marry me, I won't be able to afford to live, so just give me some money.

Also, remember you're the father of my children.

They're hungry.

Arthur wrote her back and was like, oh, yeah, for sure, I can give you some money because I'm such a good person.

I'll give you two thousand dollars for goods.

But then when Annie demanded the money again, he was like, hey, I'll give.

It to you later.

Just wait why the rush.

Annie was like, I literally don't have any money.

In December nineteen oh six, Arthur went to Washington, DC to do some lawyer stuff.

He hadn't left a penny behind for Annie or the kids, so she decided to confront that son of a bitch.

She was like, Okay, he's gonna be in DC doing important work.

If I go and bother him, he'll give me money to go away.

So Annie got a ticket to Washington, d C.

She packed her things, which included the revolver that Arthur had given to her to defend herself against Isabelle uh Oh the gun.

Annie arrived at the hotel where Arthur was staying on December eighth, nineteen oh six.

She got her own room and she checked in.

She found Arthur's room and let herself in to snoop, and what she found inside his room was extremely distressing because there were letters letters from some other woman discussing her and Arthur's plans.

To get married.

Yeah, during the time that Arthur Brown was messing around with Annie Bradley behind his wife's back, he was sauceled it up with another woman.

Turns out he had a whole hen house of side chicks.

This woman was another Annie Annie Adams kissed Catin.

Who was an actress.

She had met Arthur in Salt Lake City in the eighteen eighties before she moved to New York to perform on Broadway.

But despite the distance, apparently she was the real deal for Arthur, and he was the lady that he wanted to marry.

I mean, who knows if he would follow through with it, but they were discussing wedding plans.

Annie Bradley returned to her room with the letters and in a rage, she tore them up, and then when.

She heard Arthur returning to his.

Room, she went to confront him.

She brought the revolver with her and opened the door.

And then, as she said in court, she completely blacked out.

She woke up holding that revolver, as Arthur writhes on the floor, bleeding out from a bullet wound.

Yeah, she completely blacked out.

What is this the musical Chicago.

Arthur was rushed to a hospital and he died four days later, on December thirteenth, nineteen oh six.

Oh no, not Arthur, He's such a good goal.

Why police arrested Annie Bradley, and she's put in jail on the charge of assault with intent to kill.

Immediately, the press went wild for this story.

And you might think that the public would be against Annie.

She killed a former senator, how barbaric of her, But from the jump, most people seem to be on her side.

Yeah, she killed a guy, but he deserved it.

The New York Times reported a day after the shooting, a number of politicians have notified missus Bradley that they are willing to furnish money for her defense.

Several local restaurants today telephoned the Matron that they would gladly serve missus Bradley's meals free of charge.

And in Salt Lake City, the people were quote shocked but not surprised by the news that missus Bradley had shot ex Senator Arthur Brown.

Note to everybody out there, if your friends and community would not be surprised that you or your partner shot the other, that's not a good relationship to be in.

That flag is red because it's covered in blood.

Meanwhile, the side side chick in Arthur's alleged fiance, Annie kiss Katin, was distraught.

She wanted to accompany Arthur's body back to Salt Lake City, but his adult children from his first two marriages were like, we don't know you go away.

She was also like, well, I only agreed to marry him because he said he would settle his affairs with Annie Bradley give her money for her shop.

And he said he had done that.

Oh no, he's a big fat liar who knew.

And he kept being a stupid, uncompromising little bitch with his will because in his will he claimed that Annie Bradley's kids weren't his, so he didn't leave them any money or property from his huge estate.

Annie rotted in jail for about a year before her trial, and she oscillated from being very upset that Arthur was dead to saying stuff like this to the press, that man heaps such indignities upon me, that disgraced, robbed of everything a woman holds deer in this world, and refused amends.

There was nothing left for me to do but kill him, to wipe out the stain of shame and disgrace he had placed on my life.

Yes, queen, just kidding on?

I was she killed a MS?

What's up?

The trial began in November nineteen oh seven, and more and more was revealed about Arthur's horrible treatment of Annie.

The most shocking was that Annie had been pregnant several more times during their relationship.

Just a few weeks before the shooting, she had a miscarriage.

That means that when she was asking him for money, she was like, pregnant and they were still fucking around.

And even more shockingly is that doctors found that she had a badly lacerated cervix, not just from that miscarriage, but also from Arthur Brown, who had forced her to have three abortions, one of which he performed.

This guy fucking sucks.

Annie's lawyers were going to do a plea of temporary insanity, hence the story about her blacking out, but the prosecutor was like, no, she planned this.

I have witnesses that say that Annie said she was gonna kill Arthur, like she said that before she went to DC.

But then Annie's lawyers brought in some medical experts and they were like, Nah, this bitch is crazy and it's Arthur Brown's fault.

The trial is completed on December second, nineteen oh seven, and the next day the jury came back with a verdict not guilty, peop Pope.

Maybe I shouldn't make gun sounds because of you know how she shot someone.

But whatever, the trial was.

Finished, Annie could live free, but the problem was she still didn't have any money.

She didn't even have enough money to get back to Salt Lake City after the trial.

The public still supported her though, there was a fundraiser to get her home, but then when she got back, opinions were mixed, like, yeah, Arthur was a terrible guy, for sure, but Annie, people thought that she was deranged and unfit to be a mother.

Annie's family sued the Brown estate, hoping to get some money for her two sons, but they still didn't get a penny.

She eventually found employment working as a bookkeeper as a secretary, struggling to make it work as a mother of four children, and then tragedy struck.

One of her sons actually killed the other son during a sibling squabble over who would cook and who would clean.

Arthur Brown's son killed the Clarence Bradley son.

But what could she do.

She had to keep working.

She never remarried, and there wasn't much more about her in the press in the years after the trial.

Eventually She owned her own store, an antique store called My Shop in Salt Lake City, and she operated it until her death in November nineteen fifty.

I think it's very to say that Arthur Brown ruined her life.

He was a despicable man who did whatever he wanted.

He did not care about the repercussions of his actions.

He did not care how he hurt people.

And while I'm not crazy enough to say he deserved to be shot and killed, I'm not not saying that.

Ooh, I'm bad.

But here's one last little button for this tale of woe.

A year after Annie's murder trial, she got a very unusual telegram when she got a job at a newspaper in Salt Lake City.

It said, the jury which acquitted you a year ago since congratulations and wishes you success in your undertakings.

Every week on American Felt, we learn a lesson.

I think the last thing we learn here is that not everyone's gonna be mad at you if you shoot your cheating, stupid boyfriend.

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