On Friday 28th August 1863 Isaac Spencer was accused, upon the evidence of police-constable Cutting and Sergeant Frost of allowing disorderly persons, prostitutes and others to assemble in his house on the previous Wednesday at 2 a.m. Hearing a great disturbance the police had entered the house and found seven or eight people with drink before them. The prostitutes were rowdy and swearing. For Mr. Spenser it was said that the claims were much exaggerated  and it was a trumped up charge by the police who desired to crush the small houses, while they curried favour with, and passed over in silence, the faults of the larger establishments.
The Bench dismissed the case.