Paul Bateson, the convicted killer of Addison Verrill, a New York writer, was sentenced yesterday to from 20 years to life, and the prosecutor in the case told the judge that Mr. Bateson had boasted to an acquaintance that Mr. Bateson had also killed other men.

According to the prosecutor, William Hoyt, the 37‐year‐old Mr. Bateson told the acquaintance, Richard Ryan, who had been a witness at the trial, that he liked to kill and that he had dismembered the bodies of an unspecified number of victims, stuffed them into garbage bags and dumped them into the Hudson River.

Appearing before Justice Morris Goldman of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Hoyt said Mr. Bateson had also told Mr. Ryan that he had killed Mr. Verrill, a 36‐year‐old film critic and writer for Variety, the entertainment‐industry publication, on Sept. 14, 1977, in Mr. Verrill's apartment at 2 Horatio Street in Manhattan.

Mr. Bateson, an X‐ray technician at New York University Medical Center, was convicted last March 5 of the murder of Mr. Verrill.