Whitey Bulger shot Boston bar owner, says convicted murderer

Accused Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger and one of his associates shot dead a bar owner in a phone booth for bragging about helping the “Winter Hill Gang” with another killing, an ex-convict and confessed murderer has testified.

John Martorano is the first of the accused mob gang leader’s top associates to take the stand in what is expected to be a three- to four-month trial in the US District Court in Boston.

“They took him out in the phone booth,” said Martorano of the 1975 killing of Dorchester bar owner Edward Connors. “I heard the shots. They came back and said, ‘He’s gone.’”