- He was out walking his dog with his friend and roommate, Basil Rathbone, when he was run over by a hit and run driver. Rathbone barely escaped injury. At Miltern's funeral, Rathbone delivered the eulogy and Bobby Breen sang "Ave Maria.".
- Basil Rathbone managed to take down the license plate number of the car that had killed his friend. The next day the LA police arrested Logan Metcalf, ex-husband of Madge Bellamy, but an inquest by a coroner's jury deemed the accident "unavoidable" and absolved him of any blame, even though he admitted leaving the scene.
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