As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 392, no. 18
My zeide said that the Rebbeim disliked when people spoke to them of their wrongdoings, but preferred in-stead to discuss Chassidus. Yet in a Simchas Torah far-brengen in 5685 (1924) the Rebbe spoke at length about viduy devarim (verbal confession) and people became baalei teshuvah.35
A yungerman from Nevel told me that his infant child, asleep at home, suffocated one night (may G-d protect us). The Rebbe was in Leningrad, they told him. Arriving in Leningrad the yungerman was informed that the Rebbe had already left for Moscow. And in Moscow he learned that the Rebbe had gone home to Rostov. (This was, I believe, in the winter of 5683 (1923).) When he went to Rostov for yechidus, the Rebbe told him, "If people knew how good it was to tell everything - literally, everything once in six months, once in a year, it would be truly good."
35. See above: The Rebbe Rayatz, #12, 13.