Harry Sawyer had contributed $25,000 to Hogan's bail in 1927, after the boss had been indicted for masterminding the 1924 armed robbery of $35,000 from the Chicago Great Western Railroad station at South St. Paul. To Sawyer's undying fury, Hogan had never repaid him. In an interview with Paul Maccabee, Hogan's niece, Anne Michaud, recalled, "Uncle Danny knew who had killed him, but he'd never tell his family, because he was afraid the gangsters would come after us." Hogan's death is especially notable because it was one of the first instances in the National Crime Syndicate of a crime boss being murdered by a car bomb. After the funeral, Sawyer took over Hogan's former position as boss of St. Paul's underworld and, with the help of mobbed up police chief Big Tom Brown, masterminded a violent crime spree that, according to Paul Maccabee, would have horrified Danny Hogan. References Further reading Maccabee, Paul. John Dillinger Slept Here. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1993. External links StarTribune.com "St. Paul gang figure slain" "Gangster Saint Paul: Where to Find Dillinger's Hideout and Ma Barker's Boys" 1880s births 1928 deaths 1928 murders in the United States American crime bosses American gangsters of Irish descent Criminals from Minnesota Deaths by car bomb in the United States Irish-American culture in Minnesota Murdered American gangsters of Irish descent Organized crime in Minnesota People from Saint Paul, Minnesota People murdered by Jewish-American organized crime People murdered in Minnesota Prohibition-era gangsters Unsolved murders in the United States