Servant Girl Annihilator and had a club foot which was similar to a footprint believed to have been left by the killer. In February 1886, shortly after the last murder, Elgin was shot and killed by police while he was attempting to assault a girl with a knife. William Sydney Porter, better known as the short story writer O. Henry, was living in Austin at the time of the murders. Porter coined the term "Servant Girl Annihilators" in a May 10, 1885, letter addressed to his friend Dave Hall and later included in his anthology "Rolling Stones": "Town is fearfully dull," wrote Porter,
Robert William Porter Robert William Porter Robert William Porter (August 13, 1926 – November 6, 1991) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Born in Monmouth, Illinois, Porter was in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1944 to 1946. He received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Monmouth College in 1949 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1952. He was home office counsel of the Reserve Life Insurance Company in Dallas, Texas from 1952 to 1954. He then went into private practice as an