The Border City Star , November 2, 1928 It looks like I'm not quite ready to give up on Halloween yet. After finding a book today at the thrift store called Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween by David J. Skal it reinvigorated me to forsake seances for old Samhain (pronounced sow-win). Pranks are more of a tradition on Halloween than is trick-or-treat. Such was the case in 1928 when 9-year-old (according to the Freep) Tommy Evans, his father John of the Clover Leaf Milling Co., older brother James and some friends bounded through the Palmer Park neighborhood of Detroit in search of mischief. Tommy knocked on the wrong door at 18264 Parkland. A woman answered and Tommy asked for some seasonal gifts. The woman told him to wait a minute and went to find the homeowner Murray Jackman, who along with his chauffeur, bounded around the back of the house and pounced upon the boy. Other boys at the scene alerted James and he attempted to defend his brother but was ...