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) a colourful 'career' in Fleet St, Porter is a freelance contributor to Newsweek, Standpoint Magazine, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Herald (Glasgow), Cycle Magazine He is also a food writer (ten years as a contributing editor of "Waitrose Food Illustrated") and has been a restaurant inspector for the Good Food Guide since 2011. He also runs several cycling websites. Porter spends his time between Scotland and France and has set up VeriTable, a new French restaurant site designed to select the good from the bad in a nation whose culinary standing is increasingly questioned. Mark Porter (writer) Mark Porter (born