Detroit Free Press , September 17, 1913 This is a bit of a mysterious story mainly due to the marred scan of this story from the Free Press . The good part is that you can make out half of it and the gist of it is that Jacob Goldfrene, a Detroit financier, was passing out million dollar checks to police officers and presumably anybody else who came in contact with him. According to police, when he was found on Hasting Street calling on those passing by to witness that he was related to angels. The bad news is that I can't find another source for this story or even another person named Goldfrene in any Google search which leads me to believe that his name was misprinted in the paper. The address at 282 Brady Street brigs back a dozen returns for people looking for work and an Eli Freeman but little else.