This is Your FBI: The Adopted Thief (syndicated)

This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Larceny, its title,

the Adapted Thief. Making the decision to broadcast this series as a public service. Your FBI had several objectives. One of the most important was to focus the spotlight of publicity on what goes on behind the scenes in the underworld.

For the more thoroughly you the people are alerted to the stratagems and techniques of criminals. The better able you are to recognize a crime in the making, to take steps for self-protection, to make the moves that help bring criminals to justice.

There comes a moment in many criminal acts when, if the intended victim is on guard, the whole plot will fall to pieces. Tonight's FBI file illustrates such a case. Tonight's FBI file opens in a fashionable suburb of a large Midwestern city.

In the living room of a attractive home, a well-dressed middle-aged woman rises from her chair to answer the phone. Hello. I'd like to speak to Mrs. Fulton, please. This is Mrs. Fulton. Mrs. Grace Fulton?

Yes. I wonder if you'd mind giving me some information. What is it? Was your maiden named Thompson? Why yes? Then in 1926, you married a man named Harper. What? You went to Charleston the next year to have your baby and put it up for immediate adoption.

Oh, wha- who is this? Your son. My son. Yes, mother. If you want to see me, I'm in room 719 at the Hotel Central. Hello. Hello.

You're the young man who called me? Yes. I'm Ralph Putnam. Come in. Thank you. Were you telling me the truth? Are you? I'm your son. I can't believe it. But it's true. But how? Hey, would you see?