Sheriff Lincoln S. Cochran with his dog, on the left, and Ross O. Hamrick, right, with a moonshine still that they confiscated. The picture was staged on the platform at the train depot in Marlinton with C. J. Richardson Hardware in the background. Cochran was a Prohibition lawman being appointed Constable at Cass in 1905 then elected Sheriff of Pocahontas County in 1912. (Lincoln S. Cochran Family Collection, Courtesy of Rebecca Cochran, ID: PHP003345)
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