A newspaper headline reading "Famous Painting Stolen" refers to an art gallery heist in which not one but four famous paintings were stolen.
While the police are at the first crime scene where the burglars posed as a count and countess to enter an apartment and steal jewels, one of the detectives tells the inspector that the phone lines have been cut. But then the phone rings, and the detective answers the phone to hear from the precinct that the maid was found in Jersey City.