y stated that he never had a guest of the female persuasion, nor did he ever have a date. He was also very exclusive with his time to the young boys of the family. This may have either represented the fact that he was afraid to get attached to women, or it may have represented that he was attracted to little boys. Either way his mother's death seemed to rattle his faith in God. This event shocked him to the point were he had left for America, because in his own words "There was nothing left for me to but come away. I had to put the seas between me and my grief." Vanzetti's feelings towards the developments in his life may have been a reason for his sudden turn into anarchism.
             While Vanzetti came to America to escape grief, his intentions were to start a new life filled with happiness and prosperity. He like most other immigrants felt that America was the "land of freedom-freedom not merely to gain wealth, for which we cared little, but freedom of the mind and of ideas. We always think that a natural right, and in that
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