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A hungry chambermaid bit into an apple and helped solve a high-wire diamond heist

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Suzanne Schiltz was hungry. Cleaning is exhausting business, especially as a hotel chambermaid in Paris — one of the most visited cities in the world, even in 1926. So when she saw an apple in the suitcase of two young men one December while neatening up their room, she...

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