In 1899, Porter's lease was canceled by the owner of the building, Luther Bounds, who was expanding his gambling and saloon business.
Porter then devised what is believed to be the first "call service", in Texas for prostitutes by managing a network of runners and delivery boys to carry requests and telegrams for girls back and forth from local saloons, telegraph offices and casinos to her rented room at a boarding house, from where she would assign girls based on her knowledge of the client.
Lillie Davis, another of her "girls", became involved with outlaw and Wild Bunch member Will "News" Carver.
She later claimed she had married Carver in Fort Worth before he died in 1901, but no records to verify the alleged marriage.
[3] The Sundance Kid and his girlfriend, Etta Place, whose true identity and eventual disappearance from history has long been a mystery, first met while she worked for Porter, but this may have never been confirmed.
Porter had been arrested in 1888 and 1891, but the investigation into her affiliation with the Wild Bunch and a canceled lease led her to move her operations to her home in 1901.