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,
Mark Porter (writer) Mark Porter (writer) Mark Porter (born 16 December 1960) is a Walsall-born French-based travel writer and publisher. Porter is the author of "Coast to Coast Cycle Routes" (), a guide book to three of Britain's most popular cycle routes, all of which travel through the Lake District and Northern England, now in its 16th edition. He also wrote "Grand Tour", a guide to Paris, Rome, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Cardiff for followers of the Six Nations rugby championships (), and "Tartan Army Tour Guide to Europe" () for Scottish football fans. A former features editor of the "Sunday Express" after