A hotel chambermaid's hunger led to a surprising discovery. While cleaning a room, she took an apple from a suitcase and bit into it, only to find her teeth striking something hard. The object was the Grand Condé diamond, a rare gemstone that was missing.

The diamond was one of many pieces of jewelry stolen from a museum two months earlier. Amateur thieves had used tall ladders to rob the museum, making off with over 75 pieces valued at $3,000,000.

Further details about the theft and the discovery are available from the source, including the circumstances surrounding the robbery and the recovery of the stolen gemstone.