The Flashlight (1917)

Jack Lane William Stowell has made an invention for photographing wild animals It consists of a camera with a trigger when the trigger is stepped on by a passing animal a flash goes off and the camera shoots the picture Lane goes up to the mountains to try out his new contraption When a recluse refuses to let him spend the night in his cabin Lane goes to sleep out of doors with the camera set up near by In the middle of the night he is awakened by the flash and the sound of gunshots Trekking back to his own cabin the next day he develops the picture which is of a girl holding a rifle He returns to the recluses cabin where he is arrested for murder