Conscience 1911

Conscience (1911) is a film in the lookmovie catalog, running 17m. Directed by D.W. Griffith, it features Edwin August and Stephanie Longfellow. As they have breakfast in their hunting lodge Howard jokingly tells his wife to improve her coffee or he'll shoot her. Later she meets him as he's out hunting and is accidentally shot and killed by another hunter. Because the maid overheard his joke at breakfast Howard is arrested for her murder.