Alfred Werner, male, served as a deputy sheriff with the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas. On August 6, 1895, near Presley Junction in Crittenden County, he was fatally shot while participating in an attempted arrest at a man’s home. Accounts note that Werner was working alongside two other officers when they reached the residence; as the other officers went inside, Werner remained outside and was struck by gunfire, suffering a fatal wound. Memorial records list his end of watch on that date and identify the cause as gunfire connected to the attempted apprehension.
The setting of the killing is documented as Presley Junction, a small locality in Crittenden County across the river from Memphis, and contemporary memorial compilations specifically place the shooting there on August 6, 1895. These summaries preserve the core facts of the incident even though detailed narratives from period newspapers are scarce, and they situate Werner’s death within a broader history of line-of-duty gunfire fatalities in the county and in Presley Junction itself.
No available public sources name the suspect involved in the attempted arrest, and none report an arrest or prosecution arising from Werner’s shooting. Memorial and summary pages repeat the same brief account without identifying a perpetrator or providing any follow-up on capture, trial, or sentencing, leaving the outcome of the manhunt—if one followed—undocumented in accessible records.
