Show Police Chiefs in Session I Pittsburp Pa May 13When the I third session of the National Association Associa-tion of Chiefs of Police of the United States and Canada was called to order this morning Colonel Rea of the Western West-ern penitentiary explained and illustrated illus-trated the workings of the Bertillon system Following this the board of governors was instructed to confer with the government officials at Washington I Wash-ington in regard to the establishment of a permanent and central headquarters head-quarters for the Bertillon system The scale of assessments was changed as follow Cities with a population of 5000 to 100000 50 100000 to 200000 75 over 200000 100 The resolution I passed at Atlanta last year making Washington the permanent headquarters head-quarters for the bureau of idenjtiflca tion was rescinded and Chicago substituted sub-stituted on account of its central location Chief Dietsch then presented a resolution which was adonted condemning con-demning the parole of prisoners convicted con-victed of the higher crimes of felony such as murder burglary highway I robbery rape and arson After an interesting paper on extradition by II Chief Sherwood of Ottawa the convention conven-tion adjourned to meet in Milwaukee I next week |