Torn Checks Are Found in Grate of His Room at Boardinghouse - Leaves teh City With His Wife Very Unexpectedly. Nashville merchants are the losers to the extent of about $1,500 through the clever work of a man bearing the name of C. L. Lambert, who has been in the city at a Fifth avenue boardinghouse for the past three weeks... Lambert claimed to have a considerable sum of money, about $40,000... he induced [merchants] to indorse or cash checks... ...he had deposited several checks...