Possible Clues:

• Spring pudding as butt of joke?
• The first victim?
• Victim of a 4/1 prank
• Spring hoax victim
• Subject of a practical joke
• 4/1 cry
• Today's "Gotcha!"
• Cry heard on April Fool's Day
• 4/1 shout
• Idiot with old money turns over first property to laughingstock