Show MORE rottenness EXPOSED another on sprung in the san franc graft cases san francisco five men were ar rested saturday afternoon and locked in separate cells in the city prison ac aused of conspiring to secure conal dennial records and transcripts of evi dence of alue to the defense in the graft cases from the private offices of the district dt torne they are reed N hamlan confidential em aloye of district attorney langdon and for two bears private secretary to detective william J arns al me kinlea william corbin E A platt and joseph van after his arrest hallm broke down and made a confession of his aart in the affair he was the only man in the district attorney s office who pos hessed a key to arns desk and a so the combination to the safe it is al lebed that hamlin tor a consideration of a month has been in the i rac tice 0 transcribing records and docu ments he thought would be of imbor tance to the graft defense and t arning them over to mckinley who is de dared to have acted as a go between |