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,
William Field Porter died on 30 March 1869 at Mangatangi, [[Waikato]]. [[Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives]] [[Category:Members of the Auckland Provincial Council]] [[Category:1784 births]] [[Category:1869 deaths]] [[Category:Settlers of South Australia]] [[Category:New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates]] [[Category:People from London]] [[Category:English emigrants to New Zealand]] [[Category:19th-century New Zealand politicians]] [[Category:Privateers]] William Field Porter William Field Porter (24 January 1784 – 30 March 1869) was a ship owner from Liverpool, who migrated to South Australia in 1838. He relocated to Auckland in 1841, where he became a member of the New Zealand Parliament. Porter was born in London in 1784. He was