The charges brought against Marot were this time too strong for him to deny them.
And, seeing there was no hope of salvation from the consequences of his latest crime, he confessed all the others.
He confessed that he had killed Billaudet, to steal some six or eight francs there were on him.
He confessed he had filed the screw that held the pulley, so that his wife, who was about to add to his family, should be flung into the well, wherein she was killed, either by the fall or by drowning.
He confessed he had shot the young carter whose body had been found between Chelles and Vivières point blank with a pistol, in order to rob him of thirty francs he had just received.
Finally, he confessed he had poisoned the young glass-painter, by putting arsenic in his plate, in order to steal twelve francs from him.
Marot was condemned to death, and executed at Beauvais in 1828 or 1829.