Green’s Dictionary of Slang

charm n.

[it ‘charms’ locks open]

a pick-lock.

[UK]Greene Second Part of Conny-Catching in Grosart (1881–3) X 86: In Lifting Law. The Pickelocke is called a Charme. He that watcheth, a Stond. Their engins, Wrefters. Picking the lock, Farsing. The gaines gotten, Pelfrey.
[UK]Dekker Belman of London F4: The Picklocke is called a Charme.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
[UK]Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
[UK]Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.
[US]Matsell Vocabulum.
[US]Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).