Robert Milverton

**Robert Milverton**, AKA: **Eggs Benedict**, was a telegraph station operator on behalf of the UKGC's Ministry of Justice. He was responsible for the murders of Cosney Megundal and Hatch Windibank.

He presented himself rather coldly, and often threatened those who didn't do what he wanted with either violence or blackmail.

He was the son of "thrice-fired" Morta Milverton and lived in poverty for the most part of his childhood, and was childhood friends with the Tinpillar Brothers.

## Early Life

Milverton was born into immense poverty, but studied hard and later became a telegraph operator on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

## The Death Of His Father

*Main article: The Runaway Room*

Later in his career, he made a deal with Cosney Megundal in-order to leak top secret government communications, as he had easy access to this information due to him being a telegram operator.

He obtained a secret telegram which read:

> K. ASOUGI, T. GREGSON, A. SASHA, O. SACKER. ALL OF THE ABOVE <stop>
>
>

To hide this information, he entrusted his father, Morta, to encode this information for him on music box discs. Morta would then go on his son's behalf in order to trade the music box discs for the money.

Megundal, however, murdered Milverton Sr. in a fit of rage.

In an act of revenge, Milverton used his money to bribe several bailiffs at the Old Bailey during his trial to disguise himself as a bailiff, lock Megundal inside the omnibus his father was murdered in, before setting fire to it and leaving Megundal to burn to death.

## Retrieving the Discs

*Main article: The Unspeakable Story*

Two years later, visited the pawn shop of Hatch Windibank, under the alias of "Eggs Benedict" and claimed that Penny Pincher intended to steal his coat and the music box disc contained within.

Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson deduced his true intentions, however, and was intercepted by the police and Tobias Gregson when he attempted to take it in an armed robbery. He was then led away by Gregson for further questioning at Scotland Yard.

Later that night, he met up with his two childhood friends Nemmy and Tully Tinpillar, and made plans to take the music box required to play the discs in a robbery of the pawn shop. Windibank heard them searching and confronted them. In the panic, Milverton took out his own gun and shot Windibank through the heart, killing him on the spot.

He was then injured when Holmes and Watson entered the shop to find out what was going on, after firing a shot at Holmes, it hit his chemical pouch and triggered an explosive reaction that sent shards of glass and brass across the shop and into his own shoulder and Holmes's side.

During the investigation, Ms. Morse mentioned that she knew someone with the description of Milverton that Watson had observed from the scene, and this allowed the police to issue a warrant for him to be brought for further questioning by Watson and Gregson.

During the course of his interrogation, Milverton and Gregson talked quietly whilst still in-front of Dr. Watson and his niece. They did a trade, where Gregson would leak details about the scene of the crime in exchange for information about the leaked telegrams incident. When this was pointed out by Watson, who pointed out that nobody other than Milverton could have committed the crime, he broke down, using his cane to nearly strangle Gregson to death.

After admitting everything, both he and Gregson were led away by Inspector Glupison.

## Name and Trivia

* His surname "Milverton" is reference to the 'Sherlock Holmes' character Charles Augustus Milverton, described as a legendary blackmailer.
* His alias "Eggs Benedict" comes from the food of the same name.