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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second story in a two-part High Point Confidential series. Part one of “Con on the Run” was published Sunday and can be found online at hpenews.com. HIGH POINT â The letter was dated July 27, 1960, the same day High Point convict Walter Kincaid was killed by a prison guard as he tried to escape from an inmate road crew. At least, that was the story the guard, James A. Caulder Jr., told prison officials after he shot Kincaid alongside N.C. 86 in Hillsborough. The guard had shouted at Kincaid repeatedly and warned him not to flee, he said, but when the inmate kept running, Caulder leveled his shotgun and fired. Kincaid, only 22 years old, dropped and died within minutes. ....