Harry Sandlovich (1890 – June 1955) was a Jewish-American organized crime boss based in Saint Paul, Minnesota during Prohibition and the Great Depression.
He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Vilna Governorate-General, Lithuania, Russian Empire[1] He is infamous for the 1928 car bombing murder of St. Paul Irish mob boss Danny Hogan, and for collusion with mobbed up St. Paul police chief Thomas Archibald Brown and the Barker-Karpis Gang in both the Hamm and Bremer kidnappings, and with the Chicago Outfit in the murder of Fred Goetz.
On May 4, 1935, FBI agents from New Orleans, following up on a tip from local police, arrested Sawyer inside "a shabby gambling house", that he was secretly running in, "The Colored Section", of Pass Christian, Mississippi.
He was returned to St. Paul for trial on May 6, and immediately identified in the testimony of cooperating witness Byron Bolton as the "finger man", in the Bremer kidnapping.
[2] During his incarceration in Federal prison, the only one of Sawyer's relatives to remain in contact with him was his brother, Sam Sandlovich.